Can i use a GIF animation as favicon for my website

Question

I need to get some animated effects for favicon on my site. How can i do this?. Help me

Answer 1

It certainly looks like you can. This blog post from 2007 has some details on how to do it.

Firefox allows webmasters to use animated favicons and it is likely more browsers will eventually follow suit. While Internet Explorer does not support animated icons in any way, there is an easy way to code things so that you can display an animated favicon in supported browsers and a standard icon for all others.

I'm not sure whether it's a good idea though.