MicrosoftEdge / MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers
[Web Install] Launching already installed app
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Description
The Web Install explainer says that getInstalledRelatedApps can be used to check if the app is already installed, and in such case, hide the Install button.
However, if instead of hiding we would like to show a "Launch" button, it seems that this isn't a use case currently supported, but I think it is a very valuable one. You can achieve this with custom protocol handlers, but that is much more invasive and prone to errors. I think as part of this spec it would be nice to add an open() function to the returned object from getInstalledRelatedApps to allow it to be launched.
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