Apr 15 2019 07:06 PM
I have an app set up to run my companie's intranet site. The problem is that when I make an invoice and want to print it, the link opens a new page with a printable version of the invoice. In the app a new page link opens the full browser. Is there a way to have a new page openend from within an app to open a new app window instead of the full browser?
Apr 16 2019 02:14 PM
Apr 16 2019 02:25 PM
It's the apps feature used in the preview versions of Edge (menu -> Apps). On non-preview Edge I was using pinned shortcuts. After trying the apps feature, I liked the cleaner look without adding the extra UI elements (tabs, menus, address bar, etc.). It's just jarring when you click a link that opens a new window and have the browser with full UI open instead of a seperate app style window.
Apr 17 2019 08:19 AM
Good morning, @Cromi, thanks for sending feedback. Have you checked out the edge://flags page? If you filter the view of flags to PWA, you can enable this feature via edge://flags/#enable-desktop-pwas-stay-in-window
Looking forward to see feedback on that... obviously, it's experimental :)
-John
Apr 17 2019 03:41 PM
Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunatly that didn't solve my problem of links opening the browser, instead of another app window. If it helps, the link style I'm using is a href="link" target="_blank". I will keep trying when a new update is made available in the Canary branch.
Apr 17 2019 07:28 PM
@Cromi, interesting. I just checked and it worked for me with that HTML, so please do try with a more recent build or something. Maybe make sure that after you set that flag to enabled, that you relaunch the browser and PWA.