8352 2009-11-23 04:10:29 +0000 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 2010-10-04 14:48:37 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#rel-icon P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 29669 0 contributor 2009-11-23 04:10:29 +0000 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 30483 1 ian 2010-01-05 08:42:54 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html 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. 30484 2 contributor 2010-01-05 08:44:23 +0000 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