i'd be supprised too but i thought that maybe if you clicked on a button or link and were then asked do you want to make shortcut on desktop. link in favourites is easy enough but customer wants icon on a desktop.
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>>hi all,
>>i was wondering if there was a piece of java code, or anything else, that a user could click on on a web page and it would create an icon on their desktop. want that icon to be a link to a web site.
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>I'd be surprised, and a little alarmed if this were possible. You're asking that code be allowed to drop an arbitrary file in an arbitrary location on your local HD - a major security risk.
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>What might be possible, instead, would be to create an entry in a user's Favourites/Bookmarks. But, I don't know the details on how to do that.