html-widget-new-window

Arguments: html-widget

This generic function is called when the user clicks on a link that requests that a new browser window be made. It should return true to allow the new window to be made, or nil to disallow it.

The default method will call the widget's on-new-window function if it has one, returning what it returned, and otherwise will do nothing. An application could add methods for a subclass of html-widget.

html-widget is the html-widget that is requesting a new window.

When allowing the new browser to be made, currently on Linux the return value needs to be a new html-widget that you have created, whereas on Windows the return value may be any non-nil value to indicate whether the control is allowed to make a new Internet Explorer window itself.

Known problem: The return value is not yet working on Windows, and so the new window will always get created. We hope to fix this by implementing the necessary returning of values in OLE "in-out" parameters. This page will be updated when the fix is available.

See the html-widget control.

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Created 2009.7.29.