Falls foul of Chrome's and IE's popup blocking

[eldang]

Is there a way to make this not need the user to explicitly allow popups?

[nein09]

Here's an idea for this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18885676/open-new-tab-without-popup-blocker-after-ajax-call-on-user-click

[eldang]

Iiiinteresting. I initially put the timeouts in because of a different stackoverflow thread suggesting that making the calls asynchronous and out of sync with each other would get around popup blocking, but I never actually tested the simplest possible version: what if I just take the timeouts out altogether? I'll experiment with the simplest possible way first, though it may be worth bringing AJAX in anyway to better handle wrong HB numbers.

[nein09]

You're welcome to assign me this because I'm going to try and fix it now.

[nein09]

upon investigation, I can only open one browser tab with the technique I linked to there, not 4 or 5 of them. I think that hosting a bunch of stuff in an iframe, or scraping the text using an ajax call and response might get us further.