Rewriting the question -
I am trying to make a page on which if user leave the page (either to other link/website or closing window/tab) I want to show the on
After playing a while with this problem I did the following. It seems to work but it's not very reliable. The biggest issue is that the timed out function needs to bridge a large enough timespan for the browser to make a connection to the url in the link's href attribute.
jsfiddle to demonstrate. I used bing.com instead of google.com because of X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
var F = function(){}; // empty function
var offerUrl = 'http://bing.com';
var url;
var handler = function(e) {
timeout = setTimeout(function () {
console.log('location.assign');
location.assign(offerUrl);
/*
* This value makes or breaks it.
* You need enough time so the browser can make the connection to
* the clicked links href else it will still redirect to the offer url.
*/
}, 1400);
// important!
window.onbeforeunload = F;
console.info('handler');
return 'Do you wan\'t to leave now?';
};
window.onbeforeunload = handler;