- From: Kornel Lesinski <kornel@osiolki.net>
- Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 21:57:16 +0100
I don't think it's that important to specify exact icon sizes. Authors won't bother to accurately provide such detailed information, and applications don't need it anyway. iPhone shouldn't be a concern here. It isn't limited to 59x60 icons?Apple's own website uses 129x129 (http://www.apple.com/apple-touch-icon.png) and current EDGE network iPhones won't use anything else than rel=apple-touch-icon. My suggestion is to simply define rel=application-icon without extra attributes. There isn't much bandwidth to be saved. These icons are going to be downloaded only once. 128x128 PNG icons take only 20-30kb. Large PNG file + favicon for smallest sizes may be good enough in most cases. In cases when icon design doesn't scale well, authors could provide additional .ico/.icns files. When website provides application icons (not favicon) in .icns or .ico files, I think it can be reasonably assumed that these files contain all sizes that are needed for desktop icons, and it doesn't matter which exactly. -- regards, Kornel Lesi?ski
Received on Monday, 5 May 2008 13:57:16 UTC