Question

We have an “About our app” popover that is html formatted and basically a UIWebView in a popover. There’s also a href link to our website. The problem is if you click on the link, it just opens up our website in the popover. Is there a way to alter what happens for that link, like open up Safari so it’s in a full browser, or at least increase the popover size since our About our App window is small.

Answer 1

Yes, this post gives the following code for every http, https and mailto call to open in Safari:

-(BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request    navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType; 
{
    NSURL *requestURL =[ [ request URL ] retain ]; 
    if ( ( [ [ requestURL scheme ] isEqualToString: @"http" ] || [ [ requestURL scheme ] isEqualToString: @"https" ] || [ [ requestURL scheme ] isEqualToString: @"mailto" ]) 
             && ( navigationType == UIWebViewNavigationTypeLinkClicked ) ) { 
       return ![ [ UIApplication sharedApplication ] openURL: [ requestURL autorelease ] ]; 
    } 
    [ requestURL release ]; 
    return YES; 
}

You can modify for only certain URLs by getting the URL from the request.