Re: [flexcoders] Tabbed Browsing support? htmlText, navigateToURL(), Javascript?

[Greg Hamer]

Nick,

Thanks.  After posting on Sunday I continued researching this. 

There is a CSS3 
spec to add a "target-new: tab" property.  To my knowledge, no browsers have 
yet implement "target-new: tab".

So true, until browsers implement some standard way for Flash Player to issue 
a new tab call, there may be nothing that Adobe can do.

I originally posted my question following a designer asking whether we might 
use Flex for a site nav bar on a website.  Can anyone suggest why Flex or Flash 
is so little used for website nav bars?  (Two exceptions that I know of are 
Jeremy Allaire's new company BrightCove.com using a Flex nav, and Nike.com using Flash navs.)

Any insight that others can provide would be appreciated.

Best regards, 

g 
On 7/5/06, Nick Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:













  


    
            I
imagine it would be very difficult as not all browsers support tabs,
and the implementations of those tabs are different in each. ie Firefox
vs. IE7 vs. Safari vs Opera, etc.On 7/2/06, 
Greg Hamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:














  


    
            Has anyone here implemented tabbed browser support in Flex? i.e.
links in Flex content that can be opened in a new browser tab? (Note:
browser tab ... not Flex tab.) 

I see three possible options: 1) navigateToURL(); 2) TextField with htmlText containing html anchors; and 3) _javascript_. 

For me the problems are ...

1) With navigateToURL(), how would you specify "new tab"? 

2) With anchors in htmlText, Flash Player provides the context
menu. The Flash Player browser plug-ins include in the context
menu the option "Open in new window". (The freestanding Flash Player
omits this option.) 

3) With _javascript_, as a Flex/ActionScript developer I currently do not
possess the knowledge how to code a _javascript_ solution. (fyi ...
I have done some google searches on this, but so far no luck.) If
anyone can point me to a _javascript_ code solution, it would be much
appreciated :-) 

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 browsers.)

      

    
    









      

    
    

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