Support SVG favicons

Originator:sierkb
Number:rdar://41057732 Date Originated:12-Jun-2018, 9:54 PM
Status:Closed by Apple, duplicate of 5697363 (Open) Resolved:No
Product:Safari Product Version:
Classification:Suggestion Reproducible:Always
 
See WebKit Bug 136059 - SVG favicon support
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136059

Add SVG favicon support

Syntax <link rel=icon href=favicon.svg sizes="any" type="image/svg+xml">
Spec http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/links.html#attr-link-sizes-any
Test-case http://xn--dahlstrm-t4a.net/svg/favicon/favicon.html

Implementation status on other browsers:
* Chrome https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=294179
* Firefox https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366324
* IE https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/782416/svg-favicon-support
* Opera: https://dev.opera.com/blog/opera-46/#svg-favicons

Can I Use: SVG favicons
Icon used by browsers to identify a webpage or site. While all browsers support the .ico format, the SVG format can be preferable to more easily support higher resolutions or larger icons.
https://caniuse.com/#feat=link-icon-svg

Why I file this bug here as Safari issue rather than leaving it as WebKit issue:
See comment #6 from Brady Eidson 2018-06-11 15:36:19 PDT:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136059#c6

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