747366 - Use favicons on pinned secondary tiles in Windows 8 Metro

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Widget: WinRT, defect)

Description

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Bug 744296 added basic support for pinning tiles.  

This bug is to find a way to use the favicon of websites as the secondary tile icon.
It may be worth first applying the patch from Bug 110894 which may be leveraged for this task.

CCing Tim who may want to pickup this task since it can be used with Webapp runtime.

Comment 1

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

What size favicons are ideal? We're going to start collecting 32x32px favicons in bug 751712 so we should coordinate to make sure that's big enough for metro.

Comment 2

[Yuan Wang(:Yuan) – Mobile Firefox Design Lead]

CCing Stephen, the visual design lead, to provide inputs on the design of secondary tiles

Comment 3

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Note: A site author can override whatever is do with IE10 via:

> <meta name="msapplication-badge" 
>       value="frequency=360;polling-uri=http://ietestdrive2.com/PinnedSites/TweetCounter/microsoft/360" />


So one possible solution is to just use the firefox logo unless the pinned site has that meta tag. 

Reference:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/04/03/pinned-sites-in-windows-8.aspx

Comment 4

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

transfer widget win32->winrt