[whatwg] <link rel=icon width="" height="">

[Ian Hickson]

(With my rarely-used Google hat on:)

The Gears team has an API that allows authors to specify a set of icons:

   http://code.google.com/apis/gears/upcoming/api_desktop.html

They used a scripted API, but when I tried to get them to use a 
declarative API, they said that the main reason they used a scripted one 
is that the declarative options didn't have a way to specify dimensions.

This is a proposal to add "height" and "width" attributes to <link> 
specifically for the case of rel=icon, so that authors can provide 
multiple icons and let the UA decide which to use based on their size 
(without having to download them all to find out which is best).

Opinions?

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