How to open Safari from a WebApp in iOS 7

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Update 10/23/13: Fixed in iOS 7.0.3. Add a target=”xxx” attribute to your links to do this. Also works with mailto: and friends.

This is a bug in iOS 7.0, 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 and there’s no known way to do this.

It’s a regression from earlier versions of iOS, where links that open in Safari work just fine. It appears to be a part of a cluster of problems revolving around opening URLs, with no external URL schemes working (for example “mailto:” doesn’t work either).

The usual suspects of working around a problem like this unfortunately don’t work (for example using a form and submitting it with a target of “_new”).

There’s other grave issues, like alert and confirm modal dialogs not working at all.

It may help to submit these as bugs to Apple, http://bugreport.apple.com

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