Re: [whatwg] apple-touch-icon

On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
> For <link rel=icon> we already define the /favicon.ico fallback. If a
> page lacks <link rel=icon sizes> we should probably also look at
> Apple's proprietary extension here given that it's quite widely
> adopted. Chrome supports it and there is some work going on in Firefox
> as well: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=921014

FWIW, Chrome’s intention was to drop support for Apple’s magic file
names at some point.
https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/installtohomescreen#icon
But I agree — it seems that this won’t happen any time soon.

In case it helps, here’s some more info on touch icon support on
various OS/devices: http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/touch-icons

Received on Monday, 28 July 2014 07:36:04 UTC