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?

• javascript
• jquery

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If 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!