Re: 3d favicons from Florian Bösch on 2018-08-20 (public-immersive-web@w3.org from August 2018)

From: Florian Bösch <pyalot@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:44:51 +0200
To: Kip Gilbert <kgilbert@mozilla.com>
Cc: rcabanier@magicleap.com, trsmith@mozilla.com, public-immersive-web@w3.org
Message-ID: <CAOK8ODg9up+CKZe6nb=DJH_=ipw5-6V2gaPJiZ25pUW8CNgFoA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 9:27 AM Kip Gilbert <kgilbert@mozilla.com> wrote:

> Animated gif..  Stack frames on z-axis to generate voxels.  Transparent
> pixels generate no voxel.  Ideal for < 50x50x50 cubes...
>

Gifs have no alpha channel, just an opacity bit. If you want to blend the
icon with the tab background (or any background) which can have (depending
on OS shell skin etc.) different colors, and you don't want to have a
pixelated mess, then gifs are not a good option.

>

Received on Monday, 20 August 2018 08:45:31 UTC