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07 February 2008

dear mecha artists (pony request) could we please have an iPhone/iPod touch icon for mecha? It seems to be my number one mobile browse!

post by: By the Grace of God at: 19:10 | 17 comments

Pony? Pony?!

posted by ethylene 07 February | 19:15

Ooh, that'd be cool. Twatter has one and you just add it into the head of the page like so:

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="http://assets2.twitter.com/images/twitter_57.png?1202438036" />

The 57px×57px size is important

posted by TheDonF 08 February | 02:49

If someone makes the icon, and it passes the strong editorial vision of taz, I'm happy to put it in.

posted by seanyboy 08 February | 03:20

Okay, i am prepared to deal with old, slow computers to make it a thing in my month of things.

Does it have to have a bunny?
*crosses fingers for no*

posted by ethylene 08 February | 03:31

Doesn't need to be.

posted by seanyboy 08 February | 03:40

I've uploaded a bunnyhead zombieboy version... See if it works, IPhoners?

posted by taz 08 February | 04:52

Also, eth - it doesn't need to be a bunny! All ideas welcome!

posted by taz 08 February | 04:54

≡ Click to see image ≡

Nice.

posted by grouse 08 February | 05:03

it looks nice but the touch is still showing the tiny copy of the website..prolly something on my end..thanks taz!

posted by By the Grace of God 08 February | 05:57

Gracey, I saw this mentioned on one of the sites about IPhone icons:

If you're testing this on your iPhone, you may notice a pause of a few seconds before the icon appears when you press "Add To Home Menu". I'd imagine the icon only downloads when you request to make a webclip, instead of the "request it every time" method used for fetching favicon.ico. (As for why it's a few seconds - well, that's EDGE for you. The lag goes away when you use WiFi.)

Don't know if that helps?

posted by taz 08 February | 06:17

Not working for me and I've tried the pausing thing.

posted by TheDonF 08 February | 07:01

Mmm, if I try to go to http://metachat.org/bunnyhead.png, there's nothing there. Is that where it is? This says it needs to be root of your docs.

posted by TheDonF 08 February | 07:11

Hm. Odd. I used the header tag option as seen in the link above and other how-to guides I've seen. Could you try again, TheDonF? I've changed it to include the full path, though it seems like it shouldn't be necessary since it's in the same directory.

posted by taz 08 February | 08:05

Okay, wait... I think I see the problem. Okay, yeah, please try again!

posted by taz 08 February | 08:08

YES! Zombie bunnyhead LIVES! Thank you!

posted by By the Grace of God 08 February | 08:26

Woohoo!

posted by taz 08 February | 08:34

Yaaaaay! I gots it too!

posted by TheDonF 08 February | 08:50

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