Re: [CSS4-UI] Fwd: Would be cool with support to use standard icons from the platform

Hi,

This has been discussed previously as the "icon" uri scheme. I'm not
sure if there are any implementations. (Gecko has moz-icon://, but I
don't think that it is exposed to web content any longer.)

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2010JanMar/0255.html

Regards

On 28 September 2011 03:27, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Forwarding to www-style for consideration/discussion. -t
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
> Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 08:24
> Subject: Re: Would be cool with support to use standard icons from the platform
>
> This is a very interesting suggestion.
>
> Fred, could you resend it to the www-style mailing list:
>
> www-style@w3.org
>
> so that we can publicly archive it and follow-up there?
>
> Feel free to CC me as well.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tantek
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 06:25, Fred . <eldmannen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> All operating systems / desktop environments come with a set of standard icons.
>> Such as New, Open, Save, Save All, Print, Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo,
>> Redo, Search, Help, etc.
>>
>> It would be cool if these icons were reachable from CSS.
>> Then web apps could use system icons, and it would be cross-platform
>> and have native look.
>>
>> Example:
>> #save {appearance: button; icon: save}
>>
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>