Prevent web apps from using browser?

Question

So I've been "developing" web apps for Ubuntu mobile devices using the Web App Generator and all seems to be going well... But some - not all - of my web apps move over to the browser when a link is clicked.

Is it possible to prevent web apps from opening their content in the browser, and force them to stay within the web app itself?

Am I missing something - is there some way I can do this within the Web App Generator? Or perhaps by manually editing one of the files inside the web app setup (".click") file?

Anyone? No suggestions? – Gregory Opera Apr 03 '16 at 06:10 — Gregory Opera, Apr 03 '16 at 06:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

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I had a similar issue a while ago with a Web App being pinned to the Home screen of an iOS device.

The issue was related to the way the App treated links. i.e. if there is a link we need to open it in a webs browser

I'm unsure if the code will work in your situation as I have not used the Web App Generator to test but here it is.

var a=document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for(var i=0;i<a.length;i++)
{
    a[i].onclick=function()
    {
        window.location=this.getAttribute("href");
        return false
    }
}

StackOverflow link for reference:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2898740/iphone-safari-web-app-opens-links-in-new-window

edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

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answered Apr 03 '16 at 11:40

Michael Smith

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I extracted the ".click" package and had a look through the files contained therein using gedit... But I couldn't find the code you talk about, or anything that looked similar. – Gregory Opera Apr 04 '16 at 08:47
From what I can tell you are trying to create an app by wrapping a website in a browser. If so you need to add this code to the website as Javascript – Michael Smith Apr 04 '16 at 08:55

Prevent web apps from using browser?

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