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We can create application shortcut in google Chrome. I would like to display a different layout when my web page is running in application shortcut mode - which basically is running in a separate standalone window.
Is there a way to tell if web page is running in application shortcut mode?
Right now I am testing if the window can be re-sized by JavaScript - assuming that it is running in application shortcut mode if the window can be re-sized.
I am wondering if there is a better way to do this.
[Update] Basically we want to know if the webpage is running in a single window or running in one tab of a window.
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I've just googled a bit and found this site: http://blog.kenneth.io/blog/2010/05/04/desktop-icons-in-google-chrome/
You can see this <meta> element in the first code block:
<meta name="application-url" content="http://www.example.com"/>
I haven't found any reliable and offcial documentation* yet, but it seems to work in a quick test I've just made.
In that way, you could pass an extra query string to your URI which only gets called when opening from a pinned (taskbar|desktop) short cut.
*) This <meta> element is also unofficially metioned here: Page Meta Properties - mozilla f1.
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="application-url" content="http://www.exaple.com?shortcut=true" />
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
Test
</body>
</html>
http://www.exaple.com?shortcut=true).
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