Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-web PATCH] Add a favicon.ico file

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 04:17:38PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 26.07.2017 16:02, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 03:27:30PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> >> Most browsers try to download a /favicon.ico file from the web servers
> >> which is then e.g. used in the browser tabs or bookmark lists. So let's
> >> add such a file for the QEMU website, too. The .ico has been created
> >> resizing the logo from http://wiki.qemu.org/Logo to 16x16 pixels.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> > 
> > FYI, just having a single 'favicon.ico' file isn't generally sufficient
> > anymore. Thanks to explosion of mobile devices there are 20+ different files
> > that various browsers  / clients look for now :-(
> 
> Well, yeah, but most of that is just sick. Adding things like '<link
> rel="apple-touch-icon" .../>' to your web site is IMHO just how it
> should *not* be done.
> If we're afraid that the 16x16 pixel icon is not enough, I think we
> should add an additional SVG icon, smile at the browsers that support it
> and wait for the others to catch up.

I'd prefer we did something that actually works for web users today,
rather than expecting every vendor will switch to using SVG, which
I doubt is ever going to happen.

Regards,
Daniel
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