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Issue 5794: Links in official Google info windows do not open in new tabs/windows
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Status:  Fixed
Owner:  [email protected]
Closed:  Sep 2013


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Reported by [email protected], Sep 6, 2013
Up until recently Google always seemed fairly respectful of users' maps and whenever they wanted to provide a link out they would always open that link in a new tab/window.  With the release of the visual refresh this mindset seems to have somewhat evaporated or perhaps [hopefully] this is just a bug.

Here is a screenshot of the info windows I am referring to: [see attached]

The "more info" link to the Google+ page opens in a new tab/window which is nice however the royalalbertamuseum.ca link does not.

The only real fix is some kind of interval to automatically look for new links in the Google Map and fix the issue.  Such as:
setInterval(function() {
	$("div.gm-website a").attr("target","_blank"); //using jQuery for brevity
},100);

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I originally reported it in the Google Group at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-maps-js-api-v3/CjJPkIuh3nU


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Thanks,
Andrew Johnson
[email protected]
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Sep 7, 2013
Project Member #1 [email protected]
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Status: Confirmed
Owner: [email protected]
Labels: ApiType-Javascript3 Internal-10655987
Sep 27, 2013
#2 [email protected]
Are there any plans to fix this bug?  Is there anything further I can do to help it along?
Sep 28, 2013
Project Member #3 [email protected]
This should have been fixed in the experimental version. Can you please give that a try and see if that works for you? Thanks.
Status: Fixed
Sep 28, 2013
#4 [email protected]
Thanks just did a quick sanity check on my local dev machine and seems to be working.
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