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iPhone Home screen icons

When I create a home screen icon most of them place a custom icon on the home screen, usually with the websites logo. But a few of them just place an icon with a shot of the whole page.

Is there a way to request or create a custom home icon from a site?

In particular I'm looking for one for the Royal bank of Canada website at either:
www.royalbank.com
or
www.rbc.com

Posted on Jul 12, 2008 4:22 PM

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Jul 12, 2008 5:35 PM in response to roryrbalmer

The website your are visiting must have a webclip icon stored on their server... You can try contacting them to see if they will add one... Here is what they need to do:

To specify a bookmark icon for all pages of a web site, place a PNG image named "apple-touch-icon.png" at the root directory of your web server - similar to the "favicon.ico" for site icons.

To override the site bookmark icon on a specific web page, insert a <link> element similar to <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/customIcon.png"/> within the <head> element of the page.

The bookmark icon dimensions should be 57x57 pixels. If the icon is a different size it will be scaled and cropped to fit.

Sep 20, 2008 7:41 AM in response to roryrbalmer

Try this: navigate to the page you want to bookmark, and then find an image on the page that might look good as an icon -- say the company's logo in the page header. Then zoom in on the image so that it fills your iPhone window. Then touch the "plus" button to create a homepage icon. The icon is created using that zoomed view of the page. Only caveat is that link will now take you to that zoomed area on the page. But a quick double tap zooms you out.

But hey, does anyone know how to add a custom icon to a bookmark? Is it possible? Sounds like an app opportunity!

iPhone Home screen icons

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