Open new tab without popup blocker after ajax call on user click

Question

I have a page that enable user to perform image manipulation via HTML5 canvas, on the page, there\'s a facebook share button for sharing a generated image of the canvas on f

Answer 1

The answer from wsgeorge is the one that got me on the right track. Here is a function that hopefully illustrates the technique more clearly.

function openNewAjaxTab(url) {
    var tabOpen = window.open("about:blank", 'newtab'),
        xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

    xhr.open("GET", '/get_url?url=' + encodeURIComponent(url), true);
    xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
        if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
            tabOpen.location = xhr.responseText;
        }
    }
    xhr.send(null);
}