- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:52:43 +0000
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: Pierre-Antoine LaFayette <pierre.lafayette@gmail.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> wrote: > Pierre-Antoine LaFayette wrote: >> >> So in HTML a user can have: >> >> <img src="moz-icon://unknown?size=16" alt="File:"/> >> >> If opened in Firefox, the browser will provide an icon for the filetype. I >> think this is a useful scheme that other browsers could benefit from. >> There >> is a chrome://fileicon/<path> scheme in Chromium, however it is purely >> internal and not exposed to the Web. I thought that having a standard >> icon:// scheme of some sort would be the best approach rather than >> Chromium >> and Mozilla having their own browser specific schemes for icon retrieval. > > What benefit is there for trying to achieve interoperability by > standardising this? Are these icons meant to be used by web content, or > meant only for internal use by the browser? I think Pierre-Antoine would like to expose this to web content. Adam
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