Open Mobile Safari from a Link in a WebView

Question

Is there a URI scheme to open Mobile Safari to a specific URL?

e.g.,

Open Google in Safari         


        

Answer 1

OK, I think I understand what you are asking for.

Have a class implement the UIWebViewDelegate protocol. Implement the method

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType

This method gets called whenever the user clicks a link in your webview. You can get the URL the user clicked on be inspecting the request parameter. You can then intercept any links you want to open in mobile Safari rather then inside your webView and then call -openURL: on the shared application as in my other answer.

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:URLFromRequest];