Questions tagged [icon]
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What's the fluid-icon meta tag for?
I've stumbled across an HTML meta tag I didn't know and wondered what it is for:
I googled around, but couldn't find any explanation. What is this? A new favicon…
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Favicon, icon, shortcut icon, apple-touch-icon: Are there any others?
I know of 2 basic kinds of default web icons for websites:
Favicon: place an .ico formatted file at the root of your site named favicon.ico and most desktop browsers will find it and display it in various contexts (bookmarks, tabs). Can also be…
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What happens if I use my favicon for apple-touch-icon?
I want to stop getting all the File does not exist: apple-touch-icon... lines in my error.log but don't want to spend any time at all creating more icon files.
Other than a slightly-blocky icon for anyone who saves my URL to their home screen on an…
user16016
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How to test a set of browser touch icons, favicons and tiles for a website?
Various browsers and devices have their own specifications and standards for the kinds of favicon-like icons they use to represent web pages. This answer on the graphic design site gives a pretty good overview.
Suppose you've gone to the trouble to…
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Google's Icon Legality
I'm creating a homepage for all the computers within my company. We're a small business so we're using Google Apps. I've designed a very simple site that will be only accessible with an authorised Google account.
Below is a screenshot of the page…
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Usable unicode for a "view" icon?
I've been looking to use unicode for more iconography, and I haven't been able to find any appropriate unicode for a "view" icon. None of the "eye"-related unicode that I've found works on the web.
Does anyone know of any unicode icons that would…
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What file formats, file names, image sizes, and meta tags should my website have for its icon?
I looked through my website access log files and I saw lots of requests for icon files (with counts):
49146 /apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
45836 /apple-touch-icon.png
40287 /favicon.ico
6752 /apple-touch-icon-120x120-precomposed.png
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What's the unicode for the Share icon (or do I need to use SVG instead)?
A commonly recognised share icon looks like this:
I'm guessing there must be (surely) a Unicode symbol out there for this, but so far - despite pretty thorough searching - I've come up empty-handed.
I note that the approved list of new emojis for…
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Where can I get Apple logo with free license
I am working on a site that provide free tools, some of the tools are multi-platform and therefore I want to put the Icon of each OS, I already got linux icon and windows icon with free license but I couldnt find the apple one.
does anyone know…
Liad
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A standard glyph map for using symbol / dingbat / icon fonts
I was wondering if there exists or should exist a standard glyph map for icon/symbol fonts. That way if you have a system/theme with thousands of sites running you could easily change styles of the glyphs by changing the font face.
For example if I…
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Most acceptable way to show hyper link file type to the web page user?
I want to show the user that a hyperlink links to a PDF file (or Word/PowerPoint etc.).
Here are some methods I've considered:
Farming Report (PDF)
Farming Report (PDF, 52K)
Alternatively, I've thought about using icons:
(Examples from these…
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Best SEO-friendly approach for icon links?
I'm having trouble finding info on this. I'd like to know what is the best way to markup icon links so Search Engines can make sense of it. Google's validator tools seem to ignore title attributes.
The following are 2 cases for icon link formatting…
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In , is the sizes attribute required or optional?
I note that in the WHAT-WG section on:
link rel="icon"
Every icon referenced includes a sizes attribute:
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Does a website need other icons than a normal favicon?
A site I am working on had 404 errors which were on following URLs:
/apple-touch-icon.png
/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
Do I really need these faviocons on my site? Are bots coming to these links or real people?
user2930
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Which is better for SEO: icon-based linking or text-based linking?
I am wondering is it better to use icon-based links rather than text-based ones for SEO?
For example have the link to your homepage display as a house icon rather than a hyperlink with the anchor text "Home".
This is assuming the page title element…
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