Save website to homescreen on iphone - force name

Question

When you save a website to your iphone home screen, it pick's the site title as the name to save as, is it possible to force as a specific name regardless of which page they bookmark it on a domain?

Answer 1

On iOS 6 and later you can override the name by using this meta tag:

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="App Title" />

Unfortunately though, it doesn't get around the problem (bug?) that you can easily fit more characters in most shortcut names than Safari naturally truncates to, but at least it means you can choose a shorter name for your app, and it doesn't require any JavaScript.