Re: navigateToURL or getURL and pop-up blocking

"Jordan L. Chilcott" <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:22:24 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.flashcoders.devel
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You should be fine using navigateToURL( "yourURL.html", "_blank" ).  
Pop-up blockers don't go after this (it's often user initiated). Even  
if you put a javascript in as the URL, it should be okay.

jord

On Oct 20, 2007, at 1:23 PM, John Olson wrote:

> I have a client Flash AS3 project where I need to open a new window  
> from within Flash.   I won't have any control over the html wrapper  
> for the SWF so I can't use javascript within the HTML page.   I've  
> read suggestions about using Javascript:window.open but seems that  
> will get blocked as well.
>
> Any suggestions?

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