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When creating a shortcut to a website on Windows Phone 7, the icon it creates is a snapshot of the website instead of any sort of icon that I want it to display. For example, with iOS I can sepcify
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="Logo.ico" />
and it uses that icon for the home screen image.
I’ve tried
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="Logo.ico" />
which seems to work in IE but not IE mobile.
Has anyone successfully created a home screen icon for windows phone 7 / IE7 mobile?
I assume you are referring to pinning a web page to the start screen.
This is by design. You cannot change it.
I think the intention is that you can see a better idea of where you will be taken to when tapping it. This is particularly true if you pins multiple pages from the same site (which would have the same icon otherwise).
If it was possible to set a custom icon, it would need to be 173×173 pixels which wouldn’t be the same as any other platform. There would therefore be A LOT of sites/pages which didn’t have this specified. If the fallback was to use the default favicon image this is typically only 16×16 (or 32×32) pixels and so would not look good on the 173×173 pixel tile.