Punted this too much, need all of your input on this. Summary: We need an API function on all platforms to always open a url in the system web browser, right now each platform does its own thing, and on iOS it is very wonky, relying on a something that is ambiguous (navigation type value) through the target attribute of an anchor tag. Basically, I agree with Andrew's proposal here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-362?focusedCommentId=13247777&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13247777
JIRA issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-362 See the matrix in the PG Build blog post: https://build.phonegap.com/blog/access-tags