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DevHackaday1 day ago
When a Favicon Becomes the Entire WebsiteTim Wehrle encoded a 208-byte HTML page into a favicon image by converting it to UTF-8 bytes declared as a PNG. The browser downloads the favicon, then TypeScript code unpacks and renders the page. Larger favicons could store more data, but the unpacking script must load separately.
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