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Prevent offline iphone webapp from opening link in Safari

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Did you ever resolve this? Have same question.

Evan 2010-01-17 09:14:51

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I got it to work, the problem was due to an unseen error in the event handler code (unrelated to stopping the link from being followed). If you bind an event handler for click events to the body tag, and call preventDefault(), then the link will not be followed and mobile safari will not open, and you can define you own logic for updating the page based on that link url.

You should be sure that you call preventDefault() before any errors could possibly occur - the problem in my case was that an error was occurring in the event handler before preventDefault() was called, but of course I couldn't see that error in the console because the link had already been followed.

Here's the code I'm using (it assumes DOM standard events and would fail in IE):

bodyOnClickHandler = function(e) {
    var target = e.target;
    if (target.tagName == 'A') {
        e.preventDefault();
        var targetUrl = target.getAttribute("href");
        //show the page for targetUrl
    }
}

JoeS 2010-01-17 14:32:01

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