How to open a new window or tab via javascript in windows phone 7 browser

Question

Is it possible to open a new window or tab via javascript in Windows Phone 7 browser?

window.open does not appear to be suppor

Answer 1

On Windows Phone 7 this is not possible programmatically. It's all in the users hand.

To cite a Microsoft employee:

"A user can open a link in a new Tab by tapping and holding the link to get the context menu but an anchor or scripts request to target a new window is ignored.

There are several reasons for this:

• Cross-window communications are not supported.
• Windows Phone only has one instance of the browser so new "windows" have to be opened as Tab's.
• The browser experience is full screen so the user has no good visual cue that they have moved to a new Tab unless they explicity request it.
• Navigating "back" in a new Tab exits the browser which would be confusing to the user if they did not know a new Tab was created."