Chrome/Edge 134 support experimental <meta name="application-title">
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<meta name=application-title> meta name available in Chromium (Edge/Chrome 134)<meta name="application-title">
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Summary
Edge just shipped, in Chromium, a new name that can be used with
<meta>tags. This name isapplication-titleand is used to provide text content (via thecontentattribute) that should be displayed in an installed application's title bar.Installed application: a web app that's been installed as a standalone app on desktop operating systems that support it. For example, when installing a PWA from Microsoft Edge, on Windows.
This new meta tag makes it easy for developers to control the content that appears in the standalone app window's title bar. Developers can still use the
<title>element (still works), but using<meta name="application-title" content="...">provides an additional mechanism just for when the app is installed, which can help avoid UX issues (learn more from the explainer linked below).This BCD PR adds the compat data for the new meta name.
There's no spec yet as this is gated behind having more implementer interest. But the feature has shipped in Chrome and Edge, and other Chromium-based browsers, starting with 134.
Test results and supporting details
Explainer: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/DocumentSubtitle/explainer.md
HTML spec discussion: whatwg/html#8909