I recently developed a site for a client where a visual tour option was linked to throughout the site. The tour was a popup and the popup was called via a javascript window.open call. All of the links to pop it up worked for me, but I heard back from the client that the tour popup link within the flash movie on the homepage was being blocked for them in Safari.

Turns out they were using safari on a mac, and the reason was because I had the flash movie calling the javascript popup code via a getUrl in on the onPress event of the button. However, by changing the call to a onRelease, it started to work. This appears to be a weird safari quirk where it blocks onPress popups but allows onReleases. I found this solution on the MochiBot Blog. Thanks!

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