- From: John Mellor <johnme@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:47:00 +0100
- To: Mathias Bynens <mathiasb@opera.com>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On 29 July 2014 12:46, Mathias Bynens <mathiasb@opera.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:59 PM, John Mellor <johnme@google.com> wrote: > > We still support apple-touch-icon-* via link rel under some circumstances > > (e.g. for add to homescreen), but they're deprecated[3], since we'd like > > authors to use the standard for this, i.e.: > > > > <link rel="shortcut icon" sizes="128x128" href="/favicon.png"> > > There’s no need for `shortcut` there as per the standard. > Sure, it's just for compatibility with IE<11 (IE 9 and 10 allow rel="icon", but only if you also specify type="image/x-icon"[1]). [1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2013/09/08/internet-explorer-favicons-png-link-rel-icon-caching.aspx
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