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iCloud.com displays a custom thumbnail icon in Safari’s Top Sites [Updated]

Does anyone know if this is powered by some kind of markup that any site can use to supply browsers with a custom thumbnail or icon for Top Sites-like views?

Update: Nik Fletcher describes how this works, as it involves an apparently undocumented snippet of JavaScript for serving up this preview image.

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