Setting "Home Screen" icon name for mobile Safari

Question

By default, when "bookmarking" a website as an icon (by choosing to Add to Home Screen from within Safari's "+" menu), the icon name defaults to the page's <title>, truncated to 12 characters.

In much the same way that apple-touch-icon lets you specify your own iconified representation of the page, is there a way for the webpage to specify a default icon name other than its <title>?

Answer 1

There doesn't seem to be any way to do this with meta tags or anything like that. My suggestion would be to use server-side logic to give iPhones a different title. For example, in php you could do something like this:

<title><?php echo strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'iP')?'iDevice title':'normal title'; ?></title>