Icon

The Icon element allows the developer to specify a 16×16-pixel thumbnail to be associated with the gadget. Icons usually appear beside the gadget’s title in the context of a gadget gallery. The content of the Icon element can be either a URL to a web-based image or inline base64-encoded image data.

Icon may take the following form:

<ModulePrefs>
    <Icon>http://www.mysite.com/favicon.ico</Icon>
</ModulePrefs>

Table 3-3 lists the attributes available to you when specifying an Icon. Both are optional.

Table 3-3. Icon attributes

Attribute

Description

mode

The encoding you use for the image when embedding it. Only base64 is currently supported.

type

The MIME type of the embedded icon text.

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