- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:11:34 +0100
- To: Pierre-Antoine LaFayette <pierre.lafayette@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Pierre-Antoine LaFayette wrote: > The actual use case that triggered my want to have this was the FTP and > file:// URI directory listings pages in Chromium. They currently are quite > bland and without icons, as may be true for other browsers. Opera doesn't > have icons for files, i think Safari uses 2 stock icons for folders and > files. Firefox' equivalent pages use the moz-icon scheme and have the > platform specific icons. Makes for very nice directory listing pages. OK, and I suppose the standard directory listing pages that Apache generates could also make use of them. It wasn't clear from your original mail that this was just about file type icons, based on the file extension. You also mentioned: > <stock-image> is of the format: stock/<icon-name> > <icon-name> is a valid icon name, such as 'ok', 'cancel', 'yes', 'no'. It's not clear what the use cases for these are, but for these, it does seem like we would need to define a common set of icons that are available, unlike the file type icons that can load the system's associated icon. Have you considered using the existing about: URI scheme for this? This scheme is in the process of being standardised, and it is possible for specs to define URIs using it, which are then meant for resolving in application/platform specific ways. See the draft here. http://github.com/josephholsten/about-uri-scheme/blob/master/draft-holsten-about-uri-scheme-03.txt The important part is defined in section 5, which has significant amendments described here, which have yet to be integrated into the draft. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Sep/0755.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Sep/0767.html You could write a spec to define an about:icon URI to work like this like, e.g. "about:icon?html;32" or "about:icon?ext=html&size=32" (though, I think being shorter and avoiding '&' is better, so authors don't have to bother escaping it in their HTML) -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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