hixie: Try to clarify that UAs don't have to continually be rescanning for icons and sorting each time. (whatwg r6379)

hixie: Try to clarify that UAs don't have to continually be rescanning
for icons and sorting each time. (whatwg r6379)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.5092&r2=1.5093&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6378&to=6379

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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retrieving revision 1.5093
diff -u -d -r1.5092 -r1.5093
--- Overview.html 5 Aug 2011 23:43:55 -0000 1.5092
+++ Overview.html 6 Aug 2011 00:31:50 -0000 1.5093
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@
 
    <h1>HTML5</h1>
    <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="a-vocabulary-and-associated-apis-for-html-and-xhtml">A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML</h2>
-   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-5-august-2011">Editor's Draft 5 August 2011</h2>
+   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-6-august-2011">Editor's Draft 6 August 2011</h2>
    <dl><dt>Latest Published Version:</dt>
     <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/</a></dd>
     <dt>Latest Editor's Draft:</dt>
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@
   Group</a> is the W3C working group responsible for this
   specification's progress along the W3C Recommendation
   track.
-  This specification is the 5 August 2011 Editor's Draft.
+  This specification is the 6 August 2011 Editor's Draft.
   </p><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><p>Work on this specification is also done at the <a href="http://www.whatwg.org/">WHATWG</a>. The W3C HTML working group
   actively pursues convergence with the WHATWG, as required by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter">W3C HTML working
   group charter</a>.</p><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><p>This document was produced by a group operating under the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">5
@@ -41600,11 +41600,15 @@
   icons. <span class="impl">If multiple icons are provided, the user
   agent must select the most appropriate icon according to the <code title="attr-link-type"><a href="#attr-link-type">type</a></code>, <code title="attr-link-media"><a href="#attr-link-media">media</a></code>, and <code title="attr-link-sizes"><a href="#attr-link-sizes">sizes</a></code> attributes. If there are
   multiple equally appropriate icons, user agents must use the last
-  one declared in <a href="#tree-order">tree order</a>. If the user agent tries to
-  use an icon but that icon is determined, upon closer examination, to
-  in fact be inappropriate (e.g. because it uses an unsupported
-  format), then the user agent must try the next-most-appropriate icon
-  as determined by the attributes.</span><div class="impl">
+  one declared in <a href="#tree-order">tree order</a> at the time that the user
+  agent collected the list of icons. If the user agent tries to use an
+  icon but that icon is determined, upon closer examination, to in
+  fact be inappropriate (e.g. because it uses an unsupported format),
+  then the user agent must try the next-most-appropriate icon as
+  determined by the attributes.</span><div class="impl">
+
+  <p class="note">User agents are not required to update icons when
+  the list of icons changes, but are encouraged to do so.</p>
 
   <p>There is no default type for resources given by the <code title="rel-icon"><a href="#rel-icon">icon</a></code> keyword. However, for the purposes of
   <a href="#concept-link-type-sniffing">determining the type of the

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