When you create a shortcut on the home screen to a bookmark, Android will use a apple-touch-icon-precomposed if present (but not apple-touch-icon) as a high-res icon: <link rel=”apple-touch-icon-precomposed” href=”https://stackoverflow.com/custom_icon.png”/> As for the rest of the features, I don’t think there’s any way to do this at present without publishing an Android app that acts as … Read more
You can do this using a bookmarklet. A bookmarklet is a bookmark with a URI starting with the pseudo-protocol javascript: followed by URI-encoded JavaScript code. When you trigger the bookmark, browser will run the code in the context of the current page. So you’d go to that page, then use that bookmarklet to fill in … Read more
First we need to understand what exactly “bookmarkability” is and what exactly includeViewParams does. This way the effect of the combination of both can be better understood. Bookmarkability concerns the HTTP request URL in its exact form as you see in the browser’s address bar. It’s exactly the URL as the enduser would store in … Read more
It’s the year 2020, there is a draft by WICG for Text Fragments, and now you can link to text on a page as if you were searching for it by adding the following to the hash #:~:text=<Text To Link to> Working example on Chrome Version 81.0.4044.138: Click on this link Should take you to … Read more
Sorry, but there’s no cross-browser way to do this. Your FF example is broken as well: It won’t create a regular bookmark, but a bookmark set to be opened in the sidebar. You’d have to use the bookmark-service to create an actual bookmark, but this’ll fail due to security restrictions.
jQuery Version JavaScript (modified from a script I found on someone’s site – I just can’t find the site again, so I can’t give the person credit): $(document).ready(function() { $(“#bookmarkme”).click(function() { if (window.sidebar) { // Mozilla Firefox Bookmark window.sidebar.addPanel(location.href,document.title,””); } else if(window.external) { // IE Favorite window.external.AddFavorite(location.href,document.title); } else if(window.opera && window.print) { // Opera … Read more
Until Safari implements Service Worker and follows the direction set by Chrome and Firefox, there is no way to add your app programatically to the home screen, or to have the browser prompt the user However, there is a small library that prompts the user to do it and even points to the right spot. … Read more
jQuery Version $(function() { $(‘#bookmarkme’).click(function() { if (window.sidebar && window.sidebar.addPanel) { // Mozilla Firefox Bookmark window.sidebar.addPanel(document.title, window.location.href, ”); } else if (window.external && (‘AddFavorite’ in window.external)) { // IE Favorite window.external.AddFavorite(location.href, document.title); } else if (window.opera && window.print) { // Opera Hotlist this.title = document.title; return true; } else { // webkit – safari/chrome alert(‘Press … Read more