Genius! Posting to PD with a new idea soon..

It does lend itself to delightful comedy, doesn’t it? Just think what icons Thurrott might use for Roughly Drafted and vice-versa…

The idea of users, rather than site-owners, deciding on the icon used to represent the site is pretty powerful, if topsy-turvy compared to favicons.

(Photoshoping up Septimus round-robin pic to use as PhoneDifferent icon… Remembering I’m stuck on 1.1.1….)

I may switch to that 60×60@72. This is 168×168 with the corners squared off and I let the iPhone do the rest…

Hm.. seems like the thing to do next is create a bunch of generic icons and then host them.. then modify the script to let you use any of those generic icons for a given page.

http://allinthehead.com/retro/319/how-to-set-an-apple-touch-icon-for-any-site

I spent several hours over the weekend making these little beauties for a variety of corp and personal sites, and in my experience I agree with the updated Hicks article (http://playgroundblues.com/posts/2008/jan/15/iphone-bookmark-iconage/) that 60×60@72dpi seems to look the best.

The gloss is a tough nut to crack, as it can look great on solid blacks, but really wash out shadow or dark line detail in more complex images.

However, the apple-touch-icon.png naming convention, IMHO, may limit this becoming a mobile standard the way favicon.ico has. Then again, all the second tier mobile browsing platforms (Nokia, maybe Android one day…) are rocking some Webkit anyway…