digitarald / chromeless-external-links-snippet

Open external links in a new window when your web app runs in a chromeless runtime. Useful for Firefox OS and iOS web apps! Created and tested in Firefox.

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Open External Links in New Window

JavaScript snippet for Chromeless Apps

Automatically open external links in a new window when your web app runs in a chromeless runtime.

Especially useful for Firefox OS and iOS web apps! Created for Firefox OS apps, works on the whole modern web.

Why it doesn't suck

Event delegation: Fast load and works on dynamic content
Doesn't use window.open, just changes the target for clicked links
Keeps existing target references intact
Vanilla JavaScript (i.e. no dependencies), the best cross-browser framework!

Why it's not a 100% solution

Can't catch links to pages on the same host that don't have navigation back to your web app
If you use multiple hostnames (e.g. login.mywebsite.com and www.mywebsite.com) within your app then those links will be broken.

How to Use

Either or:

Copy code into your web app project,
Embed deferred via github,
… or just get inspired and make your own.