It's interesting to note that on most modern OSes (Mac OS X, Vista, Win 7 ...) the OS actually does create a pre-computed high quality icon for many files, e.g. images, PDF, Word, Photoshop, .... It is almost free to get this from the OS, and the OS also has 3 default sizes for it. It would be great to provide access to this if you have a File handle to it.
-Ian 2010/1/28 Adam Barth <w...@adambarth.com> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Pierre-Antoine LaFayette > <pierre.lafaye...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Adam, could you provide your thoughts on using about:icon? > > I'd prefer not to use about:icon, but I don't think it matters much. > Currently, the only URL in the about scheme that's accessible to web > content is about:blank. I believe Internet Explorer has a "res" > scheme that might be more appropriate. That's a general way to refer > to browser-provided resources with URLs. Perhaps > res:icon?ext=html&size=32 > > At a higher level, we could bikeshed about the name forever. You > should pick whatever you think is most aesthetic since you're driving > the process. > > Adam > >
