the initial reason for this change was that graphicsmagick does not
support writing to ico files. this fact lead to a chain of changes:

1. use png instead of ico (browser support is good enough)
2. render the overlays on the client using the canvas API. this way we
   only need to store the original favion and generate the overlay versions
   dynamically.
   this change also enables (next step) to simplify the handling of the
   stock favicons as well, as we don't need to generate all the versions
   upfront.