>HTML reference to the favicon is the convention //
No, the convention is that a favicon.ico file is found in the root of the site and that you can instead locate an icon by supplying a URL. Sucks as a convention.
Interestingly Google on their search homepage (for me at least) are using a microdata markup and not serving an explicit icon:
No, the convention is that a favicon.ico file is found in the root of the site and that you can instead locate an icon by supplying a URL. Sucks as a convention.
Interestingly Google on their search homepage (for me at least) are using a microdata markup and not serving an explicit icon:
<meta itemprop="image" content="/images/google_favicon_128.png">
See eg http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/#names:-the-itemprop-attribute