So I'm doing some research regarding mobile site user experience and stumbled upon the fact of the whole favicon.ico being completely outdated and all.
Looking around I've gathered that I require various new sets of images/icons to actually present the "favicon" properly on various mobile devices like android, iphones and windows phones.
Now the question here is, I've got the following code:
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="57x57" href="images/favicons/apple-touch-icon-57x57.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="60x60" href="images/favicons/apple-touch-icon-60x60.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="images/favicons/apple-touch-icon-72x72.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="76x76" href="images/favicons/apple-touch-icon-76x76.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="images/favicons/apple-touch-icon-114x114.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120" href="images/favicons/apple-touch-icon-120x120.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="144x144" href="images/favicons/apple-touch-icon-144x144.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152" href="images/favicons/apple-touch-icon-152x152.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="images/favicons/apple-touch-icon-180x180.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="images/favicons/favicon-32x32.png" sizes="32x32">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="images/favicons/favicon-194x194.png" sizes="194x194">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="images/favicons/favicon-96x96.png" sizes="96x96">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="images/favicons/android-chrome-192x192.png" sizes="192x192">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="images/favicons/favicon-16x16.png" sizes="16x16">
<link rel="manifest" href="images/favicons/manifest.json">
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="JoJo Productions">
<meta name="application-name" content="JoJo Productions">
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#00aba9">
<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="images/favicons/mstile-144x144.png">
<meta name="msapplication-config" content="images/favicons/browserconfig.xml">
<meta name="theme-color" content="#555555">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">
but for me this is just a too huge chunk of code to just show the favicon properly. So I was wondering what I would be able to remove and what I should definitely keep to present it properly on "most" mobile devices.
Most other websites that make use of mobile favicons only use a handful of the above mentioned code, being the: 57x57, 72x72, 114x114 and the 144x144 this all being the apple-touch-icons. So are the images/code parts really that important for Iphone or other mobile users? Or is it possible to have it a bit more optimised?
Either way thanks for the information.
Edit
So with some further research I've gotten to this result which seems to work okay on most modern devices:
<meta name="msapplication-config" content="images/favicons/browserconfig.xml">
<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="images/favicons/mstile-large.png">
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#ae8160">
<meta name="application-name" content="JoJo Productions">
<link rel="shortcut icon" sizes="16x16 24x24 32x32 48x48" href="favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="favicon.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="apple-touch-icon.png">
Which is of course better for me as the amount of code/images has been decreased significantly. And as long as it works on most modern mobile devices I'm happy.
With a combination of this "cheat sheet", this tutorial, and the help from Philippe B. I managed to get it to this.
Either way thanks for all the help and hopefully in the coming years they'll make a proper standard for the favicon!
