- From: Daniel Glazman <glazman@netscape.com>
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 10:13:41 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Tantek Celik wrote:
>
>On another note, since an "icon" for a page is purely presentational, this
>really should be done with CSS instead (discussion redirected to www-style).
>
No, I don't think so. An icon for a page is purely a matter of chrome,
not presentation.
>Something like this should work:
>
> :root { icon:url(foo.gif); } /* pick a better property name? */
>
>This would enable you to set the "icon" for a particular child element as
>well, so that if you were to drag & drop just that child element to your
>desktop, the resulting file would have the specified icon.
>
Ah, this is a very different thing. You are here discussing a behavioral
thing more than a chrome feature. This becomes interesting ;-)
>By using linked style sheets, you could specify a default icon for your
>entire site, and then customize it for pages that required a page-specific
>icon.
>
I''m still uncertain about adding favicon's knowledge to CSS, what do
others think ?
</Daniel>
Received on Thursday, 6 December 2001 04:11:05 UTC