The use of apple-touch-icon.png as defined by Apple is on the rise. This file is a small, square image that is primarily intended for bookmarking a web site on a mobile device.
The icon is used by the Apple iPhone OS and iPod touch software to add a web site shortcut to the Home screen. The benefit of creating an apple-touch-icon.png file is that the icon displayed for the site is defined by the web site owner rather than a thumbnail of the site content generated by the mobile device.
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Support for CSS3 Fonts via @font-face is now available in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari, with support in Opera and Google Chrome due soon.
With increasing support, more sites are being designed with web fonts. However, many web servers are not providing the correct MIME type for these files.
For the Apache web server, the following configuration in an .htaccess file will provide the correct MIME type for web fonts:
AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject .eot
AddType application/octet-stream .otf .ttf
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