I have a client who is wanting to allow visitors to add a shortcut for his website to their desktop. So you click a link and it creates the shortcut. I've never heard of anything like this and can't really find anything through searching. Is this possible? How would I do it?
I have a client who is wanting to allow visitors to add a shortcut for his website to their desktop. So you click a link and it creates the shortcut. I've never heard of anything like this and can't really find anything through searching. Is this possible? How would I do it?
Share Improve this question asked Apr 27, 2012 at 4:00 Willem EllisWillem Ellis 5,0267 gold badges39 silver badges55 bronze badges 02 Answers
Reset to default 6If you could write files at will on your users machine using javascript, then it would be a tremendous security issue. the short answer is It cant be done.
They can just drag it from the url bar to their desktop and it creates a link... At least on Macs!