Need favicon about tufte-css

[adamschwartz]

One option is the “ET” mark used as the avatar image for https://github.com/edwardtufte.

However, https://www.edwardtufte.com does not appear to use a favicon so that may be the answer right there.

[crmackay]

just an idea:

a sparkline could be cool...it would be even cooler if it was based on real data somehow...

example:

[barneycarroll]

Isn't something which has the superficial appearance of representing something but has no actual purpose the antithesis of Tufte's life work?

[crmackay]

@barneycarroll sure...which is why I was thinking you could make it represent something....

the favicon could be pulled from a server, which generates and serves up an up-to-date sparkline .png file based on ...something...I can't think of a good example...

In general, this would be a cool way for a website to display a single trend, not unlike the clock icon on the iPhone home screen displaying the current time, or the calendar icon displaying the current date.

For this to work, though I think one would need to somehow signal to the browser that the file has changed. I'm not sure what the best technique would be for that.

It's a convoluted, but interesting idea.

[jdbann]

How about an approximation of the layout this package provides?

[daveliepmann]

I think @adamschwartz has the correct here. Closing this for lack of need.