Opening links in external device browser with Cordova/jQuery-mobile

Question

I have a bunch of links in my app. I added rel=\'external\' target=\'_blank\' to all of them.

In the Ripple emulator, or in a regular desktop browser,

Answer 1

I had issues with Jason Farnsworth's answer still firing the default action after the user returned to the app in iOS. So after a little tweaking of his code I arrived at the following and it behaved as expected.

$(document).on('click', 'a', function (e) {
   var elem = $(this);
   var url = elem.attr('href');
   if (url.indexOf('http://') !== -1) {
       e.preventDefault();
       window.open(url, '_system');
       return false;
   }
});