{"id":10,"date":"2010-11-21T13:27:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T13:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albertosarullo.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2010-12-01T15:24:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T15:24:29","slug":"actionscript-ie8-navigatetourl-bug-and-workaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.albertosarullo.com\/blog\/actionscript-ie8-navigatetourl-bug-and-workaround","title":{"rendered":"ActionScript: IE8 navigateToURL bug and workaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flash player on IE8 has a bug: the call to actionscript function navigateToURL(urlRequest) always opens in a new window.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe workaround is to use ExternalInterface to create on the fly a function and call it:<\/p>\n<pre name=\"code\" language=\"js\">\r\npublic class YourUtilsClass {\r\n\tpublic static function navigateToURL( url:String ) : void {\r\n\t\tExternalInterface.call(\"function winOpen() { window.open('\" + url + \"'); }\");\r\n\t}\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flash player on IE8 has a bug: the call to actionscript function navigateToURL(urlRequest) always opens in a new window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actionscript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertosarullo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertosarullo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertosarullo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertosarullo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertosarullo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertosarullo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertosarullo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertosarullo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertosarullo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}