On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Jesse MacFadyen <[email protected]>wrote:

> [PROPOSAL]
>
> 1. If a URL is not in the whitelist, it will be passed to the default
> system browser regardless of any other rule. ( this will be handled on
> the native side, by the framework and the JS side may not even know it
> has happened. )
>

If the URL *is* in the whitelist, can we send it to the default system
browser too when calling window.open?

For lots of our usage at Wikimedia, we need to whitelist Wikipedia sites in
order to do API calls via XHR (at least on iOS), but also want to be able
to open specific pages in the system browser.

2. If ChildBrowser is present, it should include code to intercept
> target._blank and polyfil window.open to its own API.
> 3. ChildBrowser should get an additional API to specifically target
> the system default browser.
>

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)

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