callback/callback-ios — Issue #18: OpenAllWhitelistURLsInWebView setting still problematic
Author: pianoguy
Created: 2011-11-22 15:24:04+00:00
State: open

The good news: OpenThisWhitelistURLsInSafari works perfectly.
The not so good news: Once that boolean is set to yes, there is no way to force a link to jump out and open in a browser. It's all or nothing. How, in the case of an app requiring OpenAllWhitelistURLsInWebView = Yes for some pages, can you also force a particular link to open outside of the in-app webview?

In practice, it would be nice (and fairly universally useful) to be able to specify whether a link's behavior does or does not open in webview on an individual basis. For example in the same app you have some embed or iframe links that should be opened in the app's webview, and, other links on a FB or twitter badge to jump out to follow or to "like" a page, or "if you like this app, click here to jump to our website to find out more" types of links.

Maybe it is as simple as using target="_blank" inside an < a> tag to signify jumping out of the app and opening in a browser?

or maybe this scheme as an expected behavior ...

If the OpenAllWhitelistURLsInWevView boolean is set to YES,
then,
any external links in the whitelist (ExternalHosts array) will open up in WebView.
Inversely,
any external links NOT on the whitelist will open externally.

Thoughts?