On 29 July 2014 12:46, Mathias Bynens <mathi...@opera.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:59 PM, John Mellor <joh...@google.com> wrote: > > We still support apple-touch-icon-* via link rel under some circumstances > > (e.g. for add to homescreen), but they're deprecated[3], since we'd like > > authors to use the standard for this, i.e.: > > > > <link rel="shortcut icon" sizes="128x128" href="/favicon.png"> > > There’s no need for `shortcut` there as per the standard. >
Sure, it's just for compatibility with IE<11 (IE 9 and 10 allow rel="icon", but only if you also specify type="image/x-icon"[1]). [1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2013/09/08/internet-explorer-favicons-png-link-rel-icon-caching.aspx