"apple-touch-icon-precomposed" is not a real rel attribute value?

Question

Why do people ( h5bp , Mathias Bynens ) use an item <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed">? Apple's documentation on this subject does not mention apple-touch-icon-precomposedas a value for the attribute rel.

Apple docs talk about this with predefined icons:

Safari on iOS 7 does not add effects to the icons. Older versions of Safari will not add effects to icon files named -precomposed.png suffix.

It looks like we could reference the pre-selected Apple touch icon, so ??:

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png">

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Web_Designer Dec 21 '13 at 7:02

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Mathias Bynens · Answer 1 · 2014-01-06T07:17:19+0000

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iOS 7, , , iOS 7 precomposed.

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breams · Answer 2 · 2014-02-02T02:26:39+0000

iOS 6 iPad 3 , rel , apple-touch-icon-*.

-precomposed (, app-icon76x76.png) , rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" , .