Tinycon: Favicon Alert Bubbles

Tinycon is a neat script that manipulates the favicon of a page. Using a simple JavaScript call, you can add a little alert bubble over the icon, and change the number within. If the browser doesn’t support Canvas, it falls back to appending a number to the page title, like GMail does.

Very cool. Now I just need to think of something to use it for…

Tinycon – Favicon Alert Bubbles [GitHub]