title: Apple touch icon in html head or htaccess file
body: <p>I'm in the process of building a new web application.</p>
  
  <p>I've got my favicon and apple icons all ready to go. I was wondering if I need to include them in the 'head' of my HTML file - or is routing them from the <code>.htaccess</code> file acceptable?</p>
  
  <p>HTML code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;head&gt;
    &lt;link rel="shortcut icon" href="assets/ico/favicon.ico"&gt;
    &lt;!-- Standard iPhone --&gt; 
    &lt;link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="57x57" href="touch-icon-iphone-114.png" /&gt;
    &lt;!-- Retina iPhone --&gt; 
    &lt;link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="touch-icon-iphone-114.png" /&gt;
    &lt;!-- Standard iPad --&gt; 
    &lt;link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="touch-icon-ipad-144.png" /&gt;
    &lt;!-- Retina iPad --&gt; 
    &lt;link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="144x144" href="touch-icon-ipad-144.png" /&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>or just put them in htaccess?</p>
  
  <pre><code>    # Rewrite for Favicons
  RewriteRule ^favicon\.ico$ assets/ico/favicon.ico [L]
  RewriteRule ^apple-touch-icon\.png$ assets/ico/apple-touch-icon.png [L]
  RewriteRule ^apple-touch-icon-57x57\.png$ assets/ico/apple-touch-114-icon.png [L]
  RewriteRule ^apple-touch-icon-114x114\.png$ assets/ico/apple-touch-icon-114.png [L]
  RewriteRule ^apple-touch-icon-72x72\.png$ assets/ico/apple-touch-icon-144.png [L]
  RewriteRule ^apple-touch-icon-144x144\.png$ assets/ico/apple-touch-icon-144.png [L]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Question:</strong> Is there any negative to just putting them in my <code>.htaccess</code> file and removing them from my HTML?</p>