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
