Re: [whatwg] apple-touch-icon

2014-07-30 Thread Niels Keurentjes
Given that the /favicon.ico fallback is really only there for IE5/6/7 compatibility to my knowledge, and final support for the last of those realistically ended 3 months ago along with Windows XP, I'd be all for deprecating that in upcoming revisions of the standards. Vendors can then decide

Re: [whatwg] apple-touch-icon

2014-07-30 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Niels Keurentjes niels.keurent...@omines.com wrote: Given that the /favicon.ico fallback is really only there for IE5/6/7 compatibility to my knowledge, Uhm, no. It's universally supported. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/

Re: [whatwg] apple-touch-icon

2014-07-30 Thread Matthew Noorenberghe
- Original Message - From: Niels Keurentjes niels.keurent...@omines.com Cc: WHATWG wha...@whatwg.org Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 1:48:33 AM Subject: Re: [whatwg] apple-touch-icon Given that the /favicon.ico fallback is really only there for IE5/6/7 compatibility to my knowledge…

Re: [whatwg] apple-touch-icon

2014-07-30 Thread Niels Keurentjes
I'm aware of that. It became universally supported because it was the first 'de facto standard' back when IE5 introduced support for it in March 1999. Given that there are now far better and cleaner alternatives without 'magic' filenames, I don't see a reason not to deprecate it after 15 years

Re: [whatwg] apple-touch-icon

2014-07-30 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Niels Keurentjes niels.keurent...@omines.com wrote: The message to web developers should just be if you want icons, explicitly specify them. That would mean http://annevankesteren.com/robots.txt cannot have an icon, unless we revive the Link header somehow,

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.launchURL

2014-07-30 Thread Konstantin Welke
Hi! On 7/16/14, 1:24 PM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: Introducing a new API that literally doesn't do anything you can't already do is a pretty high cost, IMHO. It seems there are some potential differences: Ian and

[whatwg] Accept header

2014-07-30 Thread Anne van Kesteren
The way service workers work is that only headers set at the API-level will be exposed to service workers. E.g. Host is not exposed as the network-level takes care of that (and you can simply use request.url for it). Per https://github.com/slightlyoff/ServiceWorker/issues/303

Re: [whatwg] How to determine content-type of file: protocol

2014-07-30 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 4:26 PM, 段垚 duan...@ustc.edu wrote: 于 2014/7/29 18:48, Anne van Kesteren 写道: There's an enormous amount of tricky things to define around file URLs, this being one of them. Are there some resources on those tricky things? No, not really. But it's a short list: 1)

Re: [whatwg] Accept header

2014-07-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Anne van Kesteren wrote: it would be desirable to have Accept / Accept-Language be set by APIs, such as img. XMLHttpRequest already does this (unless a developer added those headers), see http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/ If we are eventually going to expose something like

Re: [whatwg] Accept header

2014-07-30 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: I would avoid adding the non-API sugar versions (content attributes, especially the dedicated ones) for anything that didn't have significant compelling use cases. Agreed. Note that Accept _should_ probably be set by the UA