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Bug 8352 - the example links should include a type="" attribute to allow automatic selection of the resource to retreive without having to query each of their type to see which one is supported by the browser (this cannot be safely deduced from the "extension" in UR
Summary: the example links should include a type="" attribute to allow automatic selec...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2009-11-23 04:10 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:48 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2009-11-23 04:10:29 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#rel-icon

Comment:
the example links should include a type="" attribute to allow automatic selection of the resource to retreive without having to query each of their type to see which one is supported by the browser (this cannot be safely deduced from the "extension" in URLs specified in href="" attributes. Please add type="image/png" and so on, as appropriate. Otherwise the browset will have to perform at least a HTTP "stat" request on all of them or type to use the HTTP "Accept:" header and expect that the server will return an error if there's no match.

Posted from: 79.82.50.224
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-01-05 08:42:54 UTC 
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Done for the .png and .svg cases, but I don't know the right MIME types to use for .ico and .icns files. If you can provide those I'll add them too.
Comment 2 contributor 2010-01-05 08:44:23 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4482.
Check-in comment: Add some type='' attributes to show how that could be done.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4481&to=4482