Blog icon / favicon

[ErisDS]

Now that we have the ability for a user to upload their blog icon or favicon, we should use it in the case that it has been uploaded instead of the default Ghost one.

I believe this should be used both on the frontend and on the admin panel @JohnONolan to confirm?

We should probably also implement validation / size restriction for the upload.

[JohnONolan]

Yep

[JohnONolan]

Actually, I'm going re-neg on this and say we should keep a consistent Ghost-branded favicon on admin.

[ErisDS]

I'm not sure what the different browsers do, but favicons seem to get pretty heavily cached and so I'm concerned about how this would work in practice. Anyone know what the rules are?

[JohnONolan]

Might be easier to just try it and see what happens

[matthojo]

All experiences with fav icons for me have been that the browser will cache whatever it hits first. This is then only replaced when the cache is cleared.
You can force a favicon change with URL parameters. E.g.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.ico?v=2" />

I haven't tested this recently though, so it might have changed.

[ErisDS]

we are killing this for now