How to open Safari from a WebApp in iOS 7

Question

In previous versions of iOS, tags would open Mobile Safari, and you had to intercept those to instead stay inside the webapp (an HTML page that has be

Answer 1

EDIT: Sorry, I misread your original problem. This solution was for opening an external website at all. Basic A href tags used to work in opening links and stopped working in iOS7. This was the only way I could get it to open an external link at all.

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Here's how I got it to sort of work with a webapp saved to desktop in iOS7.

function openpage()
{
window.open('http://www.yourlinkhere.com', '_blank');
}

...

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The issue though is that it seems to ignore the target option and it opens it in the same full screen desktop webapp and there is no way to navigate back that I can see.