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Prevent links in standalone web apps opening Mobile Safari

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  1. <!DOCTYPE html>
  2. <html>
  3. <head>
  4. 	<title>stay standalone</title>
  5. 	<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
  6. 	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.5,user-scalable=no">
  7. 	<script type="text/javascript">
  8. 		(function(document,navigator,standalone) {
  9. 			// prevents links from apps from oppening in mobile safari
  10. 			// this javascript must be the first script in your <head>
  11. 			if ((standalone in navigator) && navigator[standalone]) {
  12. 				var curnode, location=document.location, stop=/^(a|html)$/i;
  13. 				document.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
  14. 					curnode=e.target;
  15. 					while (!(stop).test(curnode.nodeName)) {
  16. 						curnode=curnode.parentNode;
  17. 					}
  18. 					// Condidions to do this only on links to your own app
  19. 					// if you want all links, use if('href' in curnode) instead.
  20. 					if('href' in curnode && ( curnode.href.indexOf('http') || ~curnode.href.indexOf(location.host) ) ) {
  21. 						e.preventDefault();
  22. 						location.href = curnode.href;
  23. 					}
  24. 				},false);
  25. 			}
  26. 		})(document,window.navigator,'standalone');
  27. 	</script>
  28. </head>
  29. <body>
  30. 	<p><a href="http://google.com/">google</a></p>
  31. 	<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
  32. 		// NEVER user document.write, unless for test porposes.
  33. 		document.write('<p><a href="http://'+document.location.host+'/test/">Same domain</a></p>')
  34. 	</script>
  35. 	<p><a href="/test/"><span>absolute path</span></a></p>
  36. 	<p><a href="test/">relative path</a></p>
  37. 	<p><a href="/test?http://othersite.com">http not on beginning</a></p>
  38. 	<p><a href="#test">anchor</a></p>
  39. </body>
  40. </html>

URL: https://gist.github.com/1042167/fcd09c2e0fa9af91796d65992c785019ec0681fc

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