- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:05:44 +0100
- To: "Jochen Cichon" <jc@vfnet.de>
- Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
Hi Jochen, On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Jochen Cichon <jc@vfnet.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > short question on the icons, inside the config.xml. > (I know, that part is not yet written) > > It is possible to store more than one icon, but which icon is used? > > My thought was to have several icons in different sizes, or even an SVG icon > (which is not a must for the widget UserAgent). > > Currently I'm unsure which icon is used, because the widget UA does > understand gif, png and jpeg (maybe others). > > Given the following example (e.g. small is 32x32, large is 64x64, huge is > 128x128pixel. And svg is ... scaleable ;) > > <widget ..> > <icon src="icon.svg"/> > <icon src="small_icon.png"/> > <icon src="small_icon.gif"/> > <icon src="large_icon.jpg"/> > <icon src="huge_icon.jpg"/> > </widget> > > So for my point of view, the UA will need to find the size of an icon by > reading the header or even the full image, or in the case of an svg say that > it will scale to any resolution. This is correct. > But then the question which icon will have precedence? Depends on the rendering context and media type. Please see: http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/#icons http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/#displaying We are working on this text at the moment, so if it's still a bit vague let us know and we will try to clarify it. > Also from my point of view, the first icon will be used. > So in the example above the PNG may look better than the GIF. (example) Again, please see the links above. -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
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