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What are practical applications of this? I understand favicons and the apple touch thing -- those are used as icons on various systems. What would this be for

What are practical applications of this? I understand favicons and the apple touch thing -- those are used as icons on various systems. What would this be for?

nthitz 14y ago
I could imagine this being useful for a service like CrunchBase or similar
modarts 14y ago
I'd assume it would be useful for other sites that link to sites with the logo to display it.
tass 14y ago
Things like: * News site writes an article about you, grabs your logo for the article. * Mapping applications could display your logo with your address information Basically, it's just a way of getting an officially sanctioned website/business/whatever logo without needing to ask.
toyg 14y ago
I can see various applications where third-party sites could enjoy the opportunity to reliably "pull" official logos that never get old, without having to duplicate/rehost/modify them and/or incur in trademark diatribes. For example, a stock-trading website could have official logos near (or even replacing) stock tickers. "Log in with *" buttons could be dropped altogether, mandating websites to pull the official logo. And so on. However, like every "machine-oriented" standard that promotes embedding, I can't help but feel there are security implications, something which might not be obvious now but will end up biting our ass 5 years down the line, when spammers and gangsters start exploiting some hole in the mechanism. Embedding untrusted images is already unsafe as it is, adding support for SVG looks even more unsafe. EDIT: and as someone else mentioned, it makes phishing easier.
Lukeas14 14y ago
I created a web app search engine http://iwaat.com http://iwaat.com that could make great use of this. If you need to index 1000s of sites/apps, collecting logos is still a very manual process. I imagine any other website directory, Google, news site, etc would find it useful.
hayksaakian 14y ago
You guys have really great ideas. If the OP listed some as examples, it'd be easier for me to see why such a standard is necessary.

What are practical applications of this? I understand favicons and the apple touch thing -- those are used as icons on various systems. What would this be for?

nthitz 14y ago

I could imagine this being useful for a service like CrunchBase or similar

modarts 14y ago

I'd assume it would be useful for other sites that link to sites with the logo to display it.

tass 14y ago

Things like: * News site writes an article about you, grabs your logo for the article. * Mapping applications could display your logo with your address information Basically, it's just a way of getting an officially sanctioned website/business/whatever logo without needing to ask.

toyg 14y ago

I can see various applications where third-party sites could enjoy the opportunity to reliably "pull" official logos that never get old, without having to duplicate/rehost/modify them and/or incur in trademark diatribes. For example, a stock-trading website could have official logos near (or even replacing) stock tickers. "Log in with *" buttons could be dropped altogether, mandating websites to pull the official logo. And so on. However, like every "machine-oriented" standard that promotes embedding, I can't help but feel there are security implications, something which might not be obvious now but will end up biting our ass 5 years down the line, when spammers and gangsters start exploiting some hole in the mechanism. Embedding untrusted images is already unsafe as it is, adding support for SVG looks even more unsafe. EDIT: and as someone else mentioned, it makes phishing easier.

Lukeas14 14y ago

I created a web app search engine http://iwaat.com http://iwaat.com that could make great use of this. If you need to index 1000s of sites/apps, collecting logos is still a very manual process. I imagine any other website directory, Google, news site, etc would find it useful.

hayksaakian 14y ago

You guys have really great ideas. If the OP listed some as examples, it'd be easier for me to see why such a standard is necessary.