![]() So based on more sane principals, we can remove a lot of the noise. Using David Smith’s Audiobook app’s metrics, less than 2% of users are using below iOS 10 as of writing this. We can safely assume the iOS side has drastically dropped, by Apple’s stats floating at only 9% of devices using earlier than iOS 12. When this article was originally written, this was a total list of 14 icons, counting the iOS changes. (change for iOS 10: up from 152×152, not in action. IPad touch icon (Change for iOS 7: up from 144×144)< IPhone retina touch icon (Change for iOS 7: up from 114×114) Standard iOS home screen (iPod Touch, iPhone first generation to 3G) These should be ignored unless you have a very particular use case. SVGs and JPEGs are supported by all modern browsers (Not Internet Explorer), however Safari only supports SVG icons in technology preview. ICO, GIF and PNG are all supported by Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari. Modern browsers and devices have switched to favoring scaling icons closest in size. Google Developer Web App Manifest Recommendation #AUTOMATOR MAC RESIZE IMAGE BY HEIGHT WINDOWS 8#SizeĬhrome Web Store icon & Small Windows 8 Star Screen Icon* Due to age, these have been eliminated from the favicons project. The greyed out are once legacy favicons, that can still be used but are no longer supported. A (mostly) complete list of all the known Favorite Icon Sizesīelow is a compiled list of the current known favorite icon sizes, this list is based on the Favorite Icon Cheat Sheet. Today we have custom favicons for everything from Google TVs to Microsoft Windows Metro tiles. The W3C, Recognizing the necessity for versatility, in HTML5 included a standard for multiple sizes for the favicon, which proliferated due to high-density displays, new operating system user interfaces, browser changes, and mobile devices. This created the precedent for multiple favicon sizes and helped cement PNG as the preferred format over Microsoft Windows’ ICO file format. In 2008, after the launch of the initial iPhone, the favicon took one more major turn after Apple introduced the “apple-touch-icon.png”, a higher resolution version of the favicon used for pinning to iOS’s dock. Later, both Firefox and Safari added PNG support for Favicons, marking the first major change to the Favicon format. Shortly after, in 2000, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) adopted the favicon for the HTML 4.0 (with intentionally vague specifications).Īs early as 2001, web browsers began to adopt the favicon next to the URL and soon became ubiquitous across the web, migrating to the now-familiar browser tabs. If a website had a favicon.ico file placed in the root directory of its domain, the favorite bookmark entry would include the custom icon. Bookmarks in the favorites tab had the option of including a favorite icon next to each URL. Microsoft’s nomenclature dubbed bookmarks in Internet Explorer as “Favorites”. The Favicon was originally introduced in March 1999 by Microsoft alongside Internet Explorer 5’s new “Favorites” tab.
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