On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote: > For <link rel=icon> we already define the /favicon.ico fallback. If a > page lacks <link rel=icon sizes> we should probably also look at > Apple's proprietary extension here given that it's quite widely > adopted. Chrome supports it and there is some work going on in Firefox > as well: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=921014
FWIW, Chrome’s intention was to drop support for Apple’s magic file names at some point. https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/installtohomescreen#icon But I agree — it seems that this won’t happen any time soon. In case it helps, here’s some more info on touch icon support on various OS/devices: http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/touch-icons