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Assign the iPhone Icon For Your Website!

Posted January 31, 2008 at 1:38pm by iClarified · 6196 views
You can now assign an iPhone icon to your website or webpage for use with the new Web Clip Bookmark feature.

iPhone and iPod touch allow a user to save a Web Clip 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 element similar to within the

element of the page.

The bookmark icon dimensions should be 57x57 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.