Publishing icons for various UI sizes (DIPs)

[mastiz]

I was wondering if the following feature request has been discussed.

Some sites like cnn.com or reddit.com publish icons not only of different resolution, but also of different content: presumably intended to be used in UIs of different DIP size. In a high density screen, say mobile, fitting a high-resolution image into a small UI (in DIPs) leads to a too detailed, hard-to-see image.

This spec could be extended with some additional field per icon.

[marcoscaceres]

We attempted this previously, (via the density member), but we had to remove it. Authors got confused and it ended up doing more harm than good 😭

[mastiz]

Thanks! Can you please provide some links to the past discussions, assuming they're accessible? Within Chrome, the use of manifest icons for certain UIs has been considered a regression for the examples I listed earlier, so we might need to combine manifest and non-manifest icons depending on the UI, which doesn't seem easier to get right by authors.

[mastiz]

Friendly ping, thanks.

[marcoscaceres]

Apologies, I missed this. Here is all the issues that mention "density":
https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues?utf8=✓&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aclosed%20%20density

The one that pertains to this in particular:
#450

[mastiz]

Thanks Marcos, that's very useful.