Mike Brittain » thinkfree http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog Internet, mobile applications, skiing, snowboarding, food... you know, whatever comes to mind. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:24:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Making Application Shortcuts for Chrome http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog/2008/09/09/making-application-shortcuts-for-chrome/ http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog/2008/09/09/making-application-shortcuts-for-chrome/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:16:49 +0000 Mike Brittain http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog/?p=169 Google has a page listing some details for webmasters about their new web browser.  My favorite part is in regards to handling application shortcuts which I figured out from Gmail’s site.  It’s a simple addition of “application-name” and “application-url” meta tags, along with a meta description and link to an icon file, which you probably already have on your site.

Application shortcuts are probably my favorite feature of Chrome, and the reason why I think that it is an important browser.  These shortcuts will help users and businesses to change their mindset about software-as-a-service applications.  They make web applications look like real software.  We used to have a desktop icon for Eudora or Outlook Express.  Now we have one for Gmail.  In the future, I suspect we’ll see more people replacing their installations of Microsoft Office with a shortcut to Google Docs, Zoho, ThinkFree, or Live Workspace.

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