External links not working with OS 3.0? (or Safari 4/Mac OS X)

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It seems that, with the release of iPhone OS 3.0, links to other sites no 
longer work from iUI. That 
is to say, when looking at a site that is using iUI, clicking around and going 
in and out of menus 
works fine, but as soon as you click a link that leads to another page or 
another server, it fails. 
Checking on my desktop, it seems that external links don't work in Safari 4, 
either. (Though I'm 
still on the beta.)

- What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Go to http://pixelcity.com/gps/epcot/
2. Click the link 'Official WDW Epcot Map' which leads to a document on another 
server

- What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
In Safari/iPhone OS 2.2, Safari 3/Mac OS X, and Firefox 3/Mac OS X, the 
external site opens 
normally. In Safari/iPhone OS 3.0 and Safari 4 (beta)/Mac OS X, the link 
doesn't open. If I 
comment out the references to iUI css and js, the link works fine.

- What version of the product are you using
I was using iUI 0.13. I just tried with 0.20 and 0.30 Alpha 1--same result.

Please provide any additional information below.
- This affects links to static files, google maps (won't launch 'Maps' app), 
and tel: links.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by briana...@gmail.com on 22 Jun 2009 at 5:35

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The Example given (http://pixelcity.com/gps/epcot/) is not using iUI correctly. 
 It shouldn't work properly under 
earlier versions of Safari/iPhone or Safari/Mac OS X either.

When using iUI external links should use target="_self" -- see:
http://www.joehewitt.com/blog/introducing_iui.php
or
http://www.k10design.net/articles/iui/

Original comment by msgilli...@gmail.com on 22 Jun 2009 at 8:05

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Thanks for the info and for taking the time to check my code. It was indeed 
working fine in the older versions of 
Safari which is why I didn't know I was doing anything wrong. (Old, wrong 
version at 
http://pixelcity.com/gps/epcot-old/ if anyone cares to see.) Thanks again!

Original comment by briana...@gmail.com on 22 Jun 2009 at 8:41

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