Create a WebClip Bookmark Icon


Create a WebClip Bookmark Icon

Ben Requena
Art Director

02.27.2008
Comment: 1
In: Technology, Interactive

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iPhone and iPod touch allow a user to save a WebClip bookmark to your site on their Home Screen.

To specify a bookmark icon for all pages of a web site, place a PNG image named “apple-touch-icon.png” at the root directory of your web server - similar to the “favicon.ico” for site icons.

To override the site bookmark icon on a specific web page, insert a <link> element similar to <link rel=”apple-touch-icon” href=”/customIcon.png”/> within the <head> element of the page.

The bookmark icon dimensions should be 57×57 pixels. If the icon is a different size it will be scaled and cropped to fit.

Safari will automatically composite the icon with the standard “glassy” overlay so it looks like a built-in iPhone or iPod application.

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Comments

  • virginia   10:03p.m. 03.08.2008

    We should really be doing this for all of our Web sites.

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