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Dynamic Twitter Favicon
// ==UserScript==
// @name Twitter Dynamic Icon
// @description Changes the number on the Twitter favicon to reflect the current date, as per http://remysharp.com/2010/08/24/dynamic-favicons and http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/84382
// @version 1.0
// @author KennethKufluk
// @namespace ttp://kenneth.kufluk.com/blog/2010/11/dynamic-twitter-icon-with-greasemonkey-script-in-chrome/
// @require http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js
// @include http://twitter.com/*
// @include https://twitter.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
(twitterLoaded = function() {
if (document.body.className.match('loading')) {
setTimeout(twitterLoaded, 5000);
} else {
var script = document.createElement("script");
script.textContent = "(" + updateFavIcon.toString() + ")();";
document.body.appendChild(script);
}
})();
var updateFavIcon = function() {
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas'),
ctx,
img = document.createElement('img'),
link = document.createElement('link'),
tweetcount = 0,
head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
if (canvas.getContext) {
canvas.height = canvas.width = 16; // set the size
ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
img.src = 'http://twitter.com/favicon.ico';
//called on update to the displayed timeline
$(document).delegate('div', 'newItemsCountChanged', function(e, tweetcount) {
ctx.clearRect(0,0,16,16);
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
ctx.font = 'bold 10px "helvetica","Arial",sans-serif';
ctx.textAlign = 'center';
if (tweetcount>0) {
// draw a circle
ctx.fillStyle = '#FF0000';
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.arc(10, 10, 5, 0, Math.PI*2, true);
ctx.closePath();
ctx.fill();
// add the number
ctx.fillStyle = '#F0EEDD';
if (tweetcount>9) tweetcount = "+";
ctx.fillText(tweetcount, 10, 13);
}
link.setAttribute('type', 'image/png');
link.setAttribute('rel', 'shortcut icon');
link.setAttribute('href', canvas.toDataURL('image/png'));
head.appendChild(link);
});
}
};
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