We have an issue with a site wanting to remain in app mode.  At the
time being there is no method to open a new window in that mode from
the page (no Window.Open) and they use a multi-document interface.
The work around would be to navigate instead of opening a new window.
However, they do not want to change their interface for all browsers.

For the time being, until a HTML5 App spec and associated DOM
extensions are proposed, would it be possible to either

1)  Append text to the user-agent string
2) Send a header from the browser
3) Expose a boolean readonly property to the dom (say the Window
object) where a user can query whether or not they are in app mode
( either Window.Application mode or possible Window.AddressBar )

We would like to do (3).  Is this possible?

-brad

On Jan 7, 5:07 pm, Peter Kasting <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Brian Rakowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There's not currently, but we have considered it several times. I don't
> > remember any arguments against it other than we weren't sure if it was going
> > to be necessary.
>
> The main argument against it (IIRC) was that we were concerned web
> developers might discriminate against users in various ways, i.e. refuse to
> run their site if the user was in app (or not in app) mode.  Not sure that's
> a big deal.
>
> PK
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