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Published 2020-04-17
I have a shortcut for portal.mozz.us that I added to my iPhone's home screen. It sits alongside my native gopher app (the one by Charles Childers) and a shortcut to the Gaufre gopher-web proxy.
gopher://forthworks.com/1/iOS/gopher
I use this shortcut to check that my server is still running, and to quickly look for new updates on other gemini servers. Because it's so convenient I end up clicking on it once or twice every day.
Anyways, getting to the point, I added an apple favicon link to the portal.mozz.us HTML header.
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/static/apple-touch-icon.png"> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="Gemini">
This resulted in a much nicer looking picture on my home screen. I have no way of knowing if this also works for Android, but my limited google searching seems to indicate that "yes it should".
This got me thinking... should gemini use favicons? I like the simplicity of the old web style, plop a favicon.ico file in the root of the web server and let clients autodiscover it. I think it could be a fun idea that wouldn't complicate the specification at all.
