[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16434: Give site admin ability to upload favicon in Settings, General

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#16434: Give site admin ability to upload favicon in Settings, General
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 Reporter:  jane                     |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Administration           |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-feedback needs-patch  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by RDall):

 Replying to [comment:146 chipbennett]:
 > To me, the obvious solution, then, is for core to provide basic support,
 and have the output be filterable, so that Plugins can add all the Apple
 nonsense.

 While yes Apple doesn't have a bunch of different icons. The problem is
 not only with them. If you look at a favicon generator like
 http://realfavicongenerator.net/ There is a mess of sizes settings and
 versions that all support different phones, different computer systems
 (looking at your Windows 8) etc… etc… etc…

 I saw a [https://twitter.com/acodesmith/status/584375727887413248 twitter
 conversation about this basically calling for a standard] and someone
 replied "SVG for the win" as it can be scaled to what ever the device /
 browser needs. While browser support for basic SVG is across the board
 according to http://caniuse.com/#feat=svg Getting the user to actually
 upload a proper SVG is another story. So we would be stuck with uploading
 PNG's the other issue is if you look at the favicon generator some formats
 have use of a background and others don't. (Yup looking at you Windows 8
 AGAIN)

 So my question is if we only going to support the basic Favicon? If we are
 then are we going to have to direct people to plugins that will support
 ever size required by every device and product.

 Or are we going to support a favicon for every "bloody" format known to
 mankind.


 If we don't I see a lot of:

 User would see Favicon support Yeah! and then upload an image and then
 another user would load the site on their phone and say he/she doesn't see
 it. And so on…

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