Ian Hickson wrote:
(With my rarely-used Google hat on:)
The Gears team has an API that allows authors to specify a set of icons:
http://code.google.com/apis/gears/upcoming/api_desktop.html
They used a scripted API, but when I tried to get them to use a
declarative API, they said that the main reason they used a scripted one
is that the declarative options didn't have a way to specify dimensions.
This is a proposal to add "height" and "width" attributes to <link>
specifically for the case of rel=icon, so that authors can provide
multiple icons and let the UA decide which to use based on their size
(without having to download them all to find out which is best).
Opinions?
I recall that another group[1] in a similar situation were considering
something like the following:
<link rel="icon" type="image/gif; width=24, height=24" href="...">
Presumably the above would be more the bailiwick of the MIME standard
than the HTML standard, but this seems cleaner to me than adding some
special-case attributes to the html LINK element.
[1] Sadly, I cannot remember which group it was at the moment.
