Thank you gentlemen. I now understand and concur that given current browsers there may be nothing that Adobe can currently do to enable "Open in new tab" support for links in Flash.
After posting on Sunday I continued researching this (including a google search nearly identical to what Steven suggested :-). The best that I have found is that a solution may come upon future browser adoption of the CSS3 "target-new: tab"<http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-css3-hyperlinks-20040224/#the-target-new>property. (Seeing "target-new: tab" in a standards doc lets me know I am not the first to ask for this.) fyi ... as of Flash Player 9 and AS3 getURL() is deprecated<http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/langref/migration.html>in favor of navigateToURL()<http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/langref/flash/net/package.html#navigateToURL%28%29>in the flash.net package. When I saw that navigateToURL() has no provision to open in new tab, I realized that as of FP9 there still is not "target-new: tab" support. I originally posted my question to the list following a designer asking whether we might use Flash for a site nav bar. I am a heavy tabbed browser user (right-click "Open link in new tab"), and so I had disliked the old Macromedia.com Flash nav ... and I am now happy that the new Adobe.com uses a CSS nav that is right-click "tabbed browser friendly". Regarding Flash for nav bars, other than my concern about tabbed browser support, can anyone suggest why Flash is so little used for nav bars? (One exception that I know of using a Flash nav is Jeremy Allaire's new company BrightCove.com<http://www.brightcove.com/> .) Again, thank you all for you replies. Best regards, g On 7/5/06, Tyler Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Note: For those from Adobe that read this list ... With IE7's release and > it's support for tabbed browsing, if Flash Player provides no support for > opening links in tabs it will be increasing apparent that Flash Player is > essentially unaware of tabbed browers.) I believe JavaScript is also fully unaware of tabs in any browser, and JavaScript is the browsers own language. I am sorry but tabs are still very browser specific and not exposed yet to any programatic API's available to Flash. The only solution currently is to implement browser-specific plugins that can communicate with the webpage through JavaScript. Good luck convincing internet users that they'll need such a plugin. If I find anything more that might look like a possibility I'll post it to the list, but I think you're out of luck. Tyler
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