Jeff Givens
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Joined: Sat Aug 10, 2013 8:20 pm

HTML Component "External Link" Prevents App from Being Useful

If you click on a link that opens up a web browser, it will load your mobile browser within the app. I've seen ways on this board as to how you can fix this to force it to open the browser OUTSIDE the app and not in a child browser.

Those seem dandy, but how do you handle this if you are using a 'Feed' style webpage? For example, I have an event calender in my app that pulls in a feed from a website and uses that feed to display the events inside the app. This is done using a Service.

Once I click the link, it opens a child browser. If I had the ability to modify the code for that link, I think I could fix it; however, I have no way to modify the code being pulled in through the service.

Once the link is loaded, I can't return to the App itself without Stopping the App (by killing it the whole app). If I simply exit the App with the 'home' button on whatever device I'm using then re-open the app, it just re-opens the app in the "Child Browser" state.

Any thoughts? Need more clarification?

Illya Stepanov
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Joined: Mon Mar 18, 2013 8:48 am

HTML Component "External Link" Prevents App from Being Useful

Hello Jeff, what data returns by the service? Can you give an example?

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