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MrGilbert on July 2, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user ...

Maybe I'm too old for this, but wasn't a favicon supposed to be located at "fancy.url/favicon.ico", or alternatively as a "<link rel="shortcut icon" \>"?

Curious to know why this is an issue.

ricardo81 on July 2, 2020 | [–]

There are variations of it now due to mobile devices, social sharing etc that may prefer a larger icon.

An online favicon generator will create these variations

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="57x57" href="/ico/apple-icon-57x57.png">

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="60x60" href="/ico/apple-icon-60x60.png">

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="/ico/apple-icon-72x72.png">

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="76x76" href="/ico/apple-icon-76x76.png">

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="/ico/apple-icon-114x114.png">

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120" href="/ico/apple-icon-120x120.png">

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="144x144" href="/ico/apple-icon-144x144.png">

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152" href="/ico/apple-icon-152x152.png">

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/ico/apple-icon-180x180.png">

<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="192x192" href="/ico/android-icon-192x192.png">

<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="/ico/favicon-32x32.png">

<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="96x96" href="/ico/favicon-96x96.png">

<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="/ico/favicon-16x16.png">

<link rel="manifest" href="/ico/manifest.json">

<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#ffffff">

<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="/ico/ms-icon-144x144.png">

Nonetheless, the browser can see this when parsing the page and choose the appropriate path.

MrGilbert on July 2, 2020 | | [–]

Geez, I've been out of the webdev loop for around 10 years. That's insane.

pkursawe on July 3, 2020 | | | [–]

favicons should be SVGs and done with it. This is really insane!

rezonant on July 2, 2020 | [–]

It's really not an issue. The rest of the browsers handle this without a web service (even Chrome apparently)

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