External Links functions incorrectly with Chrome on iOS [#2099155]

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#5	Screenshot 2013-10-07 09.40.53.png	60.25 KB	ryan.gibson
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Comment #1

elachlan CreditAttribution: elachlan commented 30 September 2013 at 00:18

Could you please let me know if the problem still exists with the dev module?

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Comment #2

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 1 October 2013 at 16:12

Installed dev and will be testing today.

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Comment #3

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 2 October 2013 at 17:30

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Active

» Needs review

Looks like it fixed the issue, I had several people test it. Only comment I received is that the target= has been removed. Not sure if that's relevant or not.

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Comment #4

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 7 October 2013 at 14:43

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Okay, looks like target=blank isn't working. Attaching screenshot of settings.

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Comment #5

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 7 October 2013 at 14:44

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Oops, wrong screenshot...

screenshot

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Comment #6

elachlan CreditAttribution: elachlan commented 8 October 2013 at 13:30

Does it not work at all? or is it not working on mobile sites?

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Comment #7

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 8 October 2013 at 16:40

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Needs review

» Needs work

So here's an update. Maybe my site is just crazy at this point because others don't seem to be having the same issue in the queue.

After installing dev as you mentioned in #1 I thought it was fixed with the exception of the _blank being removed from target. But it must have been a caching issue. The next day it wasn't working at all on both desktop and mobile (and I didn't see any js errors).
After confirming my settings in the dev version, I uninstalled the external links module entirely, cleared the cache, and then installed the dev module directly. Now I am back to the original issue of links opening correctly on Desktop but not opening at all on some mobile devices.

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Comment #8

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 8 October 2013 at 17:07

K, I can now confirm this is happening first hand. On an iPhone, the link with the text "Standing Strong" in the first sentence of this node's body opens to a new tab on iPhone using Chrome browser but doesn't load any content.

Again, use this link:

http://www.challies.com/a-la-carte/a-la-carte-107-3

and then click the link "Standing Strong" to reproduce the behavior.

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Comment #9

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 8 October 2013 at 17:17

Looks like this issue is specific to Chrome for iOS.

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Comment #10

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 8 October 2013 at 17:30

On my end as well, looks like first link clicked on page load/reload works. All links clicked after that experience the problem.

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Comment #10.0

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 8 October 2013 at 17:30

Issue summary:

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adding example url

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Comment #11

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 9 October 2013 at 05:17

Going to try and give a summary here of what I've found out. On latest dev:

On an iPhone using the Chrome browser if an external link is clicked it works as expected an opens a new tab.
Upon closing the new tab and returning to the parent page, if another (different or same) external link is tapped, a new blank tab will open that loads nothing.
In order for the links to begin working again, the page must be reloaded. This somewhat defeats the purpose of an external link.

I've looked through the Chromium issue queue but haven't seen anyone else dealing with the same issue.

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Comment #12

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 9 October 2013 at 05:18

Status:

Needs work

» Active

Updating status

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Comment #13

elachlan CreditAttribution: elachlan commented 9 October 2013 at 06:41

Title:

External link on Responsive Mobile site not always working correctly

» External Links functions incorrectly with Chrome on iOS

Thanks for all the information.

Can you please let me know the version of iOS and chrome you are using?

I do not have an iphone to test this against. So this might be hard for me to reproduce.

External Links uses JQuery to insert the links.

if (settings.extlink.extTarget) {
    // Apply the target attribute to all links.
    $(external_links).attr('target', settings.extlink.extTargetValue);
  }

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Comment #14

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 9 October 2013 at 07:19

Definitely could be related.

Chrome version 30.0.1599.16
iOS 7.0.2

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Comment #14.0

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 9 October 2013 at 07:19

Issue summary:

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Updating original post to make it more clear.

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Comment #15

elachlan CreditAttribution: elachlan commented 10 October 2013 at 02:05

Updated the issue summary.

I am going to say it is probably an issue with the implementation of the target attribute/JQuery in iOS Chrome.

So there isn't much we can do at the moment. But we will keep an eye on the issue.

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Comment #16

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 10 October 2013 at 02:15

For tracking purposes, new Chromium issue posted at

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=305897

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Comment #16.0

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 10 October 2013 at 02:15

Issue summary:

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Updated summary

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Comment #16.1

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 10 October 2013 at 02:16

Issue summary:

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Adding new Chromium issue to summary

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Comment #17

ryan.gibson CreditAttribution: ryan.gibson commented 27 November 2013 at 01:49

Chromium issue updated, however, this might be helpful here as well. Unminified and uncompressed version of page with issue is located at

http://development.challies.com/a-la-carte/weekend-a-la-carte-119-0

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Comment #18

elachlan CreditAttribution: elachlan commented 24 July 2014 at 00:07

Issue summary:	View changes
Status:	Active	» Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

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Comment #19

ericjgruber CreditAttribution: ericjgruber as a volunteer commented 17 August 2015 at 19:11

I'm having this issue today, but it's not limited to Chrome. Safari and Chrome on iOS won't open external links in a new window, but desktop works fine.