Components
This suggestion is about adding additional favicons to the d.tube server. These additional favicons are needed to properly display a bookmark of d.tube site when added to the home screen of a mobile phone or a tablet.
Proposal
Add the properly formatted "favicons" to the d.tube server. There is a need to add more different formats to accomodate different platforms (iOS Safari, Android Chrome, Windows 8 and 10, MacOS Safari).
A great tool that shows what files need to be added to the server can be found here: https://realfavicongenerator.net/favicon_checker?protocol=http&site=d.tube#.WrmAZ2aB3jA
Examples
Here is the current situation with d.tube. The screenshot shows that some favicons are missing:
As a reference the screenshot shows how the favicons are present on steemit.com:
Benefits
Favicon is a visual aspect of the site that is still very important and adds to the quality of the site. Right now d.tube lacks a favicon (app icon) for mobile devices.
Why favicon is important?
- It helps in branding.
- It adds to the recall value of the website.
- When a bookmark for d.tube is added to the home screen on a mobile phone/tablet it is display as a nice icon that represents the brand. If there is no favicon a visual representation of the current content of the site (at the time of adding an icon to the home screen) is used which is not visualy appealing at all.
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