Chrome introduces Web App install banners

Re:Chrome introduces Web App install banners by clay_to_n on Thursday March 12, 2015 @03:20PM (#9193098)

>My app meets all the criteria, but I don’t want the banner to display. Can I control this? Not right now. We are working on ways to give developers the ability to cancel the display of the prompt.

Sorry, what?

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Re:Chrome introduces Web App install banners by Mahn on Thursday March 12, 2015 @03:49PM (#9193321)

In other words, the prompt to "install" the shortcut will always appear for sites meeting all the criteria. I guess one can always remove the manifest file to stop the prompt from showing in the interim.

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Re:Chrome introduces Web App install banners by clay_to_n on Friday March 13, 2015 @01:10AM (#9195746)

Bad wording on my part - I know what it meant, I just thought it was baffling that they don't let websites opt-out of this new feature at all.

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Re:Chrome introduces Web App install banners by kinlan on Friday March 13, 2015 @06:12AM (#9196378)

That will be coming. It is mentioned in the article.

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Re:Chrome introduces Web App install banners by kinlan on Thursday March 12, 2015 @03:46PM (#9193293)

We are not letting developers to control when the prompt shows, other than to stop it from showing.

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Re:Chrome introduces Web App install banners by bobajeff on Thursday March 12, 2015 @06:15PM (#9194335)

From the wording is sounds like developers can't stop it from showing. (Except by not using using the APIs that would trigger it.)

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Re:Chrome introduces Web App install banners by owencm on Thursday March 12, 2015 @06:31PM (#9194407)

FYI there is a public proposal on GitHub for an API which would allow developers to control the banner more, particularly it's timing or suppressing it. Hopefully this will happen soon. https://github.com/slightlyoff/AppInstallImprovements/blob/m...

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