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Bug 25151 - rel="shortcut icon", refine the requirement
Summary: rel="shortcut icon", refine the requirement
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2014-03-26 04:39 UTC by Michael[tm] Smith
Modified: 2014-04-03 07:23 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Michael[tm] Smith 2014-03-26 04:39:54 UTC 
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html#rel-icon

spec says:

— If the "shortcut" keyword is present, it must be come immediately before the icon keyword and the two keywords must be separated by only a single U+0020 SPACE character.

Consider changing it instead to just say that that if the "shortcut" keyword is specified, the next keyword must be "icon".
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2014-03-26 10:03:32 UTC 
Please ignore the description and instead see Simon's suggestion at http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20140326#l-310

It seems like it'd make more sense to just require that if the entire value of the rel attribute be "shortcut icon", case-insensitive. Because I think if there's anything else in the value, it's not going to work as expected in IE anyway. (Also because in the general shortcut-icon case, it doesn't make sense anyway for the the value to contain anything more.)
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2014-03-26 10:11:04 UTC 
see also https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12695
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-03-31 22:07:03 UTC 
Done, but the edit is gated behind another that I didn't realise I'd started. Should be r8556 when it gets checked in.