I'm coding an admin panel with a web interface that will only be run locally (not client-facing or hosted on an external server), and it would be helpful if it could launch an application from an <a href="">. Is this possible? I understand that this could be a browser security thing, but I also know that there are iTunes and App Store links (not quite sure how those work either), and I assume this is also possible for launching "x" application. How can I do this?
Found a solution! Instead of using an <a href="">, I've decided to run a shell command from a PHP script that just does open application_name.app and redirect back to the referrer.