Is frontpage check in Joomla 1.6

When building a Joomla template it's sometimes useful to know if we are displaying an item on a frontpage or inside pages.

In Joomla 1.5 we were able to check frontpage with

if (JRequest::getVar('view') != 'frontpage') {
 
echo "We are on a frontpage";
 
}

Joomla 1.6 frontpage checking

In Joomla 1.6 things are similar but frontpage is not called a frontpage any more. Frontpage is now a page with featured items display. We can check it with code below.

if (JRequest::getVar('view') != 'featured') {
 
echo "We are on a frontpage";
 
}