Add support for Chrome Mobile web apps

[drublic]

As of Chrome Mobile 31, Google have added Install to Homescreen. This adds a new meta tag <meta name=”mobile-web-app-capable” content=”yes”> , and (apple-touch-*) is being depreciated in favour of <link rel=”shortcut icon” sizes=”1024x1024” href=”nice-highres.png”>

[drublic]

As it says in the section "Icon" in the link you provided, Chrome still looks through the "old" link tags while shortcut icon is preferred. For the time being I'd add this to the docs and add it in HTML5 Boilerplate as soon as other browsers support it too.

[PaulKinlan]

It is unlikely that other browsers will support as we plan to diverge from the apple-* support pretty soon. The use of apple-* is more of a bootstrap feature to get users used to the idea of installing to the home-screen given that adoption of apple-* is higher due to it being out for 4-5 years.

[mathiasbynens]

Instead of:

<link rel="shortcut icon" sizes="1024x1024" href="nice-highres.png">

The markup should really be:

<link rel="icon" sizes="1024x1024" href="nice-highres.png">

Both work the same way, and shortcut is a legacy IE thing that should be avoided as much as possible.

[drublic]

Can we throw together a Pull Request for the changes of the docs for this one?

[alrra]

Related to this discussion:

Chrome for Android Beta's Add to Homescreen feature has been temporarily disabled. Back in Chrome 32!
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=316311

(from: https://twitter.com/ChromiumDev/status/402821347442561024)

[PaulKinlan]

The syntax will remain the same there is just an implementation bug.
On 19 Nov 2013 08:06, "Cătălin Mariș" [email protected] wrote:

Related to this discussion:

Chrome for Android Beta's Add to Homescreen feature has been temporarily
disabled. Back in Chrome 32!
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=316311

(from: https://twitter.com/ChromiumDev/status/402821347442561024)

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[alrra]

The syntax will remain the same there is just an implementation bug.

@PaulKinlan yes I know, I just wanted to have the link to the bug in here, in case we ever need to reference it.

[drublic]

I've added a note to the docs in the PR above.