SVG favicon not supported by Safari about payload HOT 3 CLOSED

v3.0 is good enough, this is not that important 👍

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@franciscolourenco the demo likely displays a fallback favicon that the browser has cached on the top-level domain (payloadcms.com). That site has a favicon.ico hosted on the root of the application: https://github.com/payloadcms/website/blob/main/public/favicon.ico. Unsupported browsers will use this when no valid favicon was found, including sub-domains, it seems. But adding this to the Payload Admin Panel in not an option, however, because favicons need to be 100% configurable through the Payload Config. A static file would fall outside of this capability.

BUT in 3.0, we've actually moved to PNG favicons (dy default), so this is no longer an issue. With this new pattern you can provide your own .svg, .ico, or any other icon format. For this reason I'm going to go ahead and close this ticket. For 2.0, Safari would either need to increase support to SVG favicons, or you'd have to find another way to inject a favicon.ico into the root of your application (not sure if this is even possible, so if anyone has ideas, feel free to leave a comment).

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I suppose it's possible for us to extend the favicon config a bit, which would allow you to supply your own .ico file. But this would require an additional set of logic to check the file type in order to properly set the type attribute in the DOM—and this is exactly what we've done in 3.0. Instead of retrofitting support for this, we strongly recommend upgrading to 3.0 if this is an option for you, as that the the more permanent fix going forward.

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