I was trying to make my own standalone copy of Google Chat using NWjs, but I ran into some problems.
So, when you open a link in the NWjs window, it opens in another NWjs window. However, I would like to open it in the default system browser.
I tried using Tampermonkey, which didn't work, since I figured out how to add extensions to NWjs, and making my own extension didn't work either, so I found out about NWjs's inject_js_end and tried to use that.
But, I keep getting Uncaught TypeError: Failed to set the 'innerHTML' property on 'Element': This document requires 'TrustedHTML' assignment. error.
I assumed this was because CSP was blocking my jQuery code, so I modded CSP-Blocker for chrome but it didn't work.
package.json:
{
"name": "Chat",
"main": "index.html",
"chromium-args": "--enable-logging=stderr --load-extension='./AntiCSP'",
"inject_js_end": "script.js",
"window": {
"title": "Chat",
"icon": "ico.png",
"width": 1280,
"height": 720,
"resizable": true
}
}
index.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Loading...</title>
</head>
<body>
<script>
window.location.replace("https://chat.google.com")
</script>
</body>
</html>
script.js
//jQuery here
console.log("[DEBUG]: Replace links to browser...")
$('a').click(function() {
nw.Shell.openExternal($(this).prop("href"));
})
How can I force all links in the webpage to open in system browser? I am mostly a Python dev and I haven't found any working solutions yet.
EDIT: As Jaredcheeda pointed out, inject_js_end does only run once. Does anyone have other possible solutions I could use? Maybe Tampermonkey...?
EDIT2: Anyone have any ideas? I still don't have any ideas...
EDIT3: I was maybe thinking of writing some kind of jQuery to replace all <a> tags with <script> tags that could open it in browser with nw.Shell.openExternal(), then loop it.
Problem is, I don't know how to do that.
Correct answer: Use the official API
Anything other than that will just be very hacky. The inject_js_end only runs once. What happens when two people are IMing and a new message is received containing a link, your function to hijack the click event and open in a default browser would need to be re-ran after every IM. You could try listening to navigation events and preventing them, but anything you do is just gonna be hacky at the end.