921005 - [Browser] Enable to choose icon with proper image size by link tag for homescreen bookmark

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 897900

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Browser, defect)

Description

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See discussion here
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.gaia/Bi2-ufWd75A


<link rel="icon" sizes="228x288" href="foo.png">

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/links.html#attr-link-sizes

Comment 1

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add some context:

We'd looking for some way to get better icon on screen.

Currently Firefox OS browser can save bookmark to homescreen, with a default icon background and a web site's favicon onto it.
It works fine on current small sized phone, but looks not pretty in bigger size(tablet)/higher resolution(WVGA) devices since the limit of favicon's resolution. 



I am not sure if it still an issue in Haida (I see no icons but tabs). If Haida did not use icons to present website, we don't need to support this spec since it might be adapted several years later.

Comment 2

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from Bug 921014 Comment 19,  Karl collect top 500 sites and find

basically no top 500 sites at all (in the one tested were sending us) use

link rel="icon" sizes=""

Comment 3

[Dale Harvey (:daleharvey)]

Did you check how many supported 

    <link rel="apple-touch-icon" 

? The first few I tried did

Comment 4

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Bug 921014 Comment 19 has more through test about top 500 sites.

68 of 500 has apple-touch-icon.

Comment 5

[Dale Harvey (:daleharvey)]

It looks like a 1 line change for the mozbrowser api to support apple-touch-icon, there was already a previous patch to have the system app places to store multiple sizes, then its just down to bookmarks to use it, seems like theres agreement to do this

Comment 6

[Dale Harvey (:daleharvey)]

Hi, what is the planned action for this bug?

I just landed a patch to add multiple icons in the app_window.js in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=968156

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1042027 is a shared utility for places / bookmark to pick the the best icon

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=921014 is tracking support for reporting apple-touch-icons in gecko

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1042730 is tracking the actual integration of the shared library

And we have been tracking all of this from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1041482

Just wondering what else is needed so we can keep track of it

Comment 7

[yifan [:yifan][:yliao]]

Hi, sorry that I didn't know these relative bugs and I'm still trying to catch up on the issue. I've ask :gasolin for advice and as far as I know there's no decision made currently.