Re: Toolbar icons from Cameron McCormack on 2013-08-08 (www-svg@w3.org from August 2013)

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:16:22 +1000
To: Rick <graham.rick@gmail.com>
CC: www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <52038C16.5020202@mcc.id.au>

Hi Rick,

Rick wrote:
> Is it not possible to add a toolbar icon (favicon) to an svg document
> without wrapping it in HTML or XHTML?  I can't find a way to do it that
> works.
>
> If I'm wrong, please correct me.
>
> If not, is this something we could add to SVG?   Favicons are a
> wonderful way to bookmark documents on a toolbar. For SVG to have to
> live in a wrapper for this seems a bit primitive.
>
> Implementation should be a breeze.

If you are lucky, adding a <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
rel="favicon" href="..." type="..."/> to your SVG document will work.  I 
haven't tested it.

Received on Thursday, 8 August 2013 12:17:02 UTC