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Deleplace opened this issue Jan 18, 2023 · 5 comments
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x/website: high-res favicon for system integration #57899

Deleplace opened this issue Jan 18, 2023 · 5 comments
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FrozenDueToAge help wanted NeedsFix The path to resolution is known, but the work has not been done. UX Issues that involve UXD/UXR input website
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Deleplace commented Jan 18, 2023 •
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What did you do?

The use case is "Open the online playground as if it was a standalone app".

In Google Chrome (desktop), there is a very nice feature "Create Shortcut". Its creates an shortcut for the OS window manager, that opens the website in its own window, as if it were an app.

  • Open Google Chrome
  • Navigate to https://go.dev/play/
  • Top Right ⋮ (kebab button) > More Tools > Create Shortcut...
  • Check the box "Open as window"
  • Click Create

It is very well integrated with OSX. Not so much with Ubuntu. YMMV.

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What did you expect to see?

A new Gopher icon shows up in my dock (I'm on OSX)

What did you see instead?

A new Gopher icon shows up in my dock, but it is blurry.

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In my screenshot,

  • the 4 icons on the left are actual desktop apps
  • the 3 icons on the right are shortcuts to the webapps Google Meet, Youtube and Youtube Music, which have high-res favicon
  • I think the Gopher icon is https://go.dev/favicon.ico , which is not high-res.

I suggest we fix this with either a high-res raster favicon, or a vector favicon.
@gopherbot gopherbot added this to the Unreleased milestone Jan 18, 2023
@seankhliao seankhliao changed the title x/Playground: high-res favicon for system integration x/website: high-res favicon for system integration Jan 18, 2023
@seankhliao seankhliao added the NeedsInvestigation Someone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one. label Jan 18, 2023
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cc @golang/tools-team

@dle8 dle8 modified the milestones: Unreleased, website/later Jan 19, 2023
@dle8 dle8 added help wanted UX Issues that involve UXD/UXR input labels Jan 19, 2023
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Deleplace commented Jan 23, 2023 •
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Here is my suggestion, I can turn it into a PR after discussion.

I looked at a few guides 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

I propose to add 3 image files and 3 lines of HTML, to fit for most popular OS and browsers.

  • Keep the existing favicon.ico at root path. It contains 2 layers: one 16x16 and one 32x32

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  • Create and add a larger image /images/gopher.png with dimensions 144x144 (it must be a multiple of 48x48)
  • Create and add a larger image /images/gopher-plain.png with a white background (no transparency)
  • Add an image /images/gopher.svg (an equivalent of this one is already approved for use)
  • Add these lines in the HTML <head>:
    <link rel="icon" href="/images/gopher.png" sizes="any">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/images/gopher-plain.png"/>
    <link rel="icon" href="/images/gopher.svg" type="image/svg+xml">

To test what the change would look like, I created color variations for each resources and uploaded 5 static sites to an 5 HTTPS servers.

  • A) the original favicon file, but with the 2 low-res layers colored in pink and brown

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  • B) a high-res transparent PNG gopher.png colored in green

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  • C) a vector file gopher.svg colored in purple

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The goal is to verify that all modern system correctly take into account either the SVG (best) or the high-res PNG (second best).

The static websites are name a, ab, ac, bc, abc, reflecting which resources they contain out of A, B, C.

Results

Chrome (OSX)

Tabs

OSX_Chrome

Chromes "sees" all of the favicon resource types. It correctly prefers SVG when available, then PNG, then ICO.

Dock

a, ab, ac, bc, abc

OSX_macbook_dock

The Dock shortcut correctly displays the SVG. It does not properly handles the high-res PNG, though.

Firefox (OSX)

Tabs

OSX_Firefox

Firefox "sees" all of the favicon resource types. It correctly prefers SVG when available, then PNG, then ICO.

Safari (OSX)

Tabs

OSX_Safari

Safari does not support SVG favicons. It does support the high-res PNG.

iPhone 7 (iOS 15.7)

Home screen

iphone_7_home_screen

ICO and SVG not supported as home screen shortcut icons.

The transparent PNG background turned black, so instead we'll need a distinct file <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/images/gopher-plain.png"/> with a plain white background.

iPad Pro (iOS 15.7)

Safari tabs

ipad_pro_safari

SVG not supported.

Home screen

ipad_pro_home_screen

ICO and SVG not supported as home screen shortcut icons.

The transparent PNG background turned black, so instead we'll need a distinct file <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/images/gopher-plain.png"/> with a plain white background.

Android 12 (Samsung Galaxy S10)

Home screen

samsung_galaxy_S10_home_screen

ICO not supported.

PNG takes precedence over SVG, for some reason.

Android 13 (Pixel 5)

Home screen

pixel_5_home_screen

ICO not supported.

PNG takes precedence over SVG, for some reason.

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findleyr commented Jan 26, 2023 •
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CC @jamalc -- looks good to me. Thank you for doing such diligent investigation!

@dmitshur dmitshur added NeedsFix The path to resolution is known, but the work has not been done. and removed NeedsInvestigation Someone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one. labels Feb 1, 2023
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Change https://go.dev/cl/476975 mentions this issue: _content: high-res favicon

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Thank you all, it looks great now in my Mac's dock!

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