window.open() in an iPad on load of a frame does not work
- by user278859
I am trying to modify a site that uses "Morten's JavaScript Tree Menu" to display PDFs in a frames set using the Adobe Reader plug-in.
On the iPad the frame is useless, so I want to open the PDF in a new tab. Not wanting to mess with the tree menu I thought I could use JavaScript in the web page being opened in the viewer frame to open a new tab with the PDF.
I am using window.open() in $(document).ready(function() to open the pdf in the new tab. The problem is that window.open() does not want to work in the iPad.
The body of the HTML normally looks like this...
<body>
<object data="MypdfFileName.pdf#toolbar=1&navpanes=1&scrollbar=0&page=1&view=FitH"
type="application/pdf"
width="100%"
height="100%">
</object>
</body>
I changed it to only have a div like this...
<body>
<div class="myviewer" ></div>
</body>
Then used the following script...
$(document).ready(function() {
var isMobile = {
Android : function() {
return navigator.userAgent.match(/Android/i) ? true : false;
},
BlackBerry : function() {
return navigator.userAgent.match(/BlackBerry/i) ? true : false;
},
iOS : function() {
return navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone|iPad|iPod/i) ? true : false;
},
Windows : function() {
return navigator.userAgent.match(/IEMobile/i) ? true : false;
},
any : function() {
return (isMobile.Android() || isMobile.BlackBerry() || isMobile.iOS() || isMobile.Windows());
}
};
if(isMobile.any()) {
var file = "MypdfFileName.pdf";
window.open(file);
}else {
var markup = "<object data='MypdfFileName.pdf#toolbar=1&navpanes=1&scrollbar=0&page=1&view=FitH' type='application/pdf' width='100%' height='100%'></object>";
$('.myviewer').append(markup);
};
});
Everthing works except for window.open() on the iPad. If I switch things around widow.open() works fine on a computer. In another project I am using window.open() successfully on the iPad from an onclick function.
I tried using a timer function. I also tried adding an onclick function to the div and posting a click event. In both cases they worked on a computer but not an iPad. I am stumped.
I know it would make more sense to handle the ipad in the tree menu frame, but that code is so complex I can't figure out where to put/modify the onclick event.
Is there a way to change the object so that it opens in a new tab?
Is anyone familiar enough with Mortens Tree Menu code that can tell me how to channge the on click event so that it opens the pdf in a new tab instead of opening a page in the frame?
Thanks
