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Re: Closing a tab in mobile safari

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On 23/11/2011 4:00 PM, Andrew Poulos wrote:
> I have a web page that when the user clicks a link opens a new window.
> On Safari in iOS 5 the window opens in a tab.
>
> The user is meant to interact with the data on the new window. After
> they do so the window is meant to close to return them to the opener.
>
> Alas, using window.close(); in the opened window/tab closes all tabs
> including the opener.
>
> I then tried window.opener.outline.close(); ('outline' being the name I
> gave to the new window) but again all the tabs were closed.
>
> How can I close just the opened window/tab from within itself with
> Safari on iOS 5?

What's weird is that if I add a link with an onclick, and touch it, then 
just the tab will close ie. with a link like:

<a href="#" onclick="window.close(); return false;">close outline</a>

And I tried using initEvent to trigger a mouse click on the link and 
still all tabs closed :-(

Andrew Poulos

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Closing a tab in mobile safari Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-23 16:00 +1100
  Re: Closing a tab in mobile safari Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-23 21:26 +1100
    Re: Closing a tab in mobile safari Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-24 16:11 +1100

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