Re: Intent to support apple-touch-icon with Browser API

2014-08-04 Thread Fabrice Desré
On Mon, 04 Aug 2014 10:42:49 +0100, Gervase Markham wrote: > On 28/07/14 17:12, Dale Harvey wrote: >> We specifically chose a User Agent to something compatible with our >> Android release to get more compatible websites, despite the "standard" >> way would be to not do browser sniffing. > > I'm

Re: Intent to support apple-touch-icon with Browser API

2014-08-04 Thread Gervase Markham
On 28/07/14 17:12, Dale Harvey wrote: > We specifically chose a User Agent to something compatible with our Android > release to get more compatible websites, despite the "standard" way would > be to not do browser sniffing. I'm not quite sure what you mean here. Who is "we" in that sentence? The

Re: Intent to support apple-touch-icon with Browser API

2014-07-28 Thread Dale Harvey
We specifically chose a User Agent to something compatible with our Android release to get more compatible websites, despite the "standard" way would be to not do browser sniffing. Not only that, but we do spoof our User Agent to specific websites exactly so we get a more compatible page to improve

Re: Intent to support apple-touch-icon with Browser API

2014-07-28 Thread Anthony Ricaud
I don't think we should implement this. Surely it provides a better user experience but that's always the tradeoff when considering implementing proprietary features from other vendors. If we changed our user-agent to something that matches Android or iOS devices, we would get mobile versions o

Re: Intent to support apple-touch-icon with Browser API

2014-07-27 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Ben Francis wrote: > It would also be great to speak with people at Apple and Google about a > deprecation plan. Emailed the WHATWG: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2014Jul/0163.html -- http://annevankesteren.nl/ _

Re: Intent to support apple-touch-icon with Browser API

2014-07-25 Thread Ben Francis
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Alive wrote: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=921014 is tracking: > support link rel="apple-touch-icon” in our browser API. > I dislike this a lot as it's equivalent to adopting Webkit prefixes in Gecko. However, the icons we get when we currently a

Intent to support apple-touch-icon with Browser API

2014-07-24 Thread Alive
Hi folks, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=921014 is tracking: support link rel="apple-touch-icon” in our browser API. With this we could start to fetch and display the "apple" format icon in FxOS or any app using browser API. There are already some opinions about we should or we sh