title: <access origin="http://*" launch-external="yes" /> not working for iOS
body: <p>launch-external does not seems to work for iOS. but it works perfectly for android.</p>
  
  <p>I am looking for a 'launch-external' equivalent for iOS, i am using cardova (version 3.7.0) and phoneGap online build tool.</p>
  
  <p>below is my config.xml </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;widget xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:gap="http://phonegap.com/ns/1.0" id="com.something.something" version="1.0.3"&gt;
    &lt;name&gt;something&lt;/name&gt;
    &lt;description&gt;
  something
    &lt;/description&gt;
    &lt;author href="http://something.com" email="something@something.com"&gt;Something&lt;/author&gt;
    &lt;content src="index.html"/&gt;
    &lt;preference name="permissions" value="none"/&gt;
    &lt;preference name="orientation" value="default"/&gt;
    &lt;preference name="target-device" value="universal"/&gt;
    &lt;preference name="fullscreen" value="false"/&gt;
    &lt;preference name="webviewbounce" value="false"/&gt;
    &lt;preference name="prerendered-icon" value="true"/&gt;
    &lt;preference name="stay-in-webview" value="false"/&gt;
    &lt;preference name="ios-statusbarstyle" value="black-opaque"/&gt;
    &lt;preference name="detect-data-types" value="true"/&gt;
    &lt;preference name="exit-on-suspend" value="true"/&gt;
    &lt;preference name="show-splash-screen-spinner" value="true"/&gt;
    &lt;preference name="auto-hide-splash-screen" value="true"/&gt;
    &lt;preference name="disable-cursor" value="false"/&gt;
    &lt;preference name="android-minSdkVersion" value="7"/&gt;
    &lt;preference name="android-installLocation" value="auto"/&gt;
    &lt;preference name="DisallowOverscroll" value="true" /&gt;
  
    &lt;gap:plugin name="org.apache.cordova.console"/&gt;
    &lt;gap:plugin name="org.apache.cordova.device"/&gt;
    &lt;gap:plugin name="org.apache.cordova.dialogs"/&gt;
    &lt;gap:plugin name="org.apache.cordova.geolocation"/&gt;
    &lt;gap:plugin name="org.apache.cordova.globalization"/&gt;
    &lt;gap:plugin name="org.apache.cordova.inappbrowser"/&gt;
    &lt;gap:plugin name="org.apache.cordova.network-information"/&gt;
    &lt;gap:plugin name="org.apache.cordova.vibration"/&gt;
    &lt;gap:plugin name="org.apache.cordova.statusbar"/&gt;
    &lt;gap:plugin name="org.apache.cordova.splashscreen"/&gt;
  
    &lt;icon src="icon.png"/&gt;
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/android/icon-36-ldpi.png" gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="ldpi"/&gt;
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/android/icon-48-mdpi.png" gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="mdpi"/&gt;
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/android/icon-72-hdpi.png" gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="hdpi"/&gt;
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/android/icon-96-xhdpi.png" gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="xhdpi"/&gt;
  
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/ios/icon-57.png" gap:platform="ios" width="57" height="57"/&gt;
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/ios/icon-72.png" gap:platform="ios" width="72" height="72"/&gt;
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/ios/icon-57-2x.png" gap:platform="ios" width="114" height="114"/&gt;
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/ios/icon-72-2x.png" gap:platform="ios" width="144" height="144"/&gt;  
      &lt;!-- iPhone 6 / 6+ --&gt;
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/ios/icon-60@3x.png" gap:platform="ios" width="180" height="180" /&gt;
  
    &lt;!-- iPhone / iPod Touch  --&gt;
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/ios/icon-60.png" gap:platform="ios" width="60" height="60" /&gt;
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/ios/icon-60@2x.png" gap:platform="ios" width="120" height="120" /&gt;
  
    &lt;!-- iPad --&gt;
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/ios/icon-76.png" gap:platform="ios" width="76" height="76" /&gt;
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/ios/icon-76@2x.png" gap:platform="ios" width="152" height="152" /&gt;
  
    &lt;!-- Settings Icon --&gt;
    &lt;!--
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/ios/icon-small.png" gap:platform="ios" width="29" height="29" /&gt;
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/ios/icon-small@2x.png" gap:platform="ios" width="58" height="58" /&gt;
    --&gt;
    &lt;!-- Spotlight Icon --&gt;
    &lt;!--
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/ios/icon-40.png" gap:platform="ios" width="40" height="40" /&gt;
    &lt;icon src="res/icon/ios/icon-40@2x.png" gap:platform="ios" width="80" height="80" /&gt;
    --&gt;
  
    &lt;platform name="ios"&gt;
      &lt;!-- images are determined by width and height. The following are supported --&gt;
      &lt;splash src="res/screen/ios/Default~iphone.png" width="320" height="480"/&gt;
      &lt;splash src="res/screen/ios/Default@2x~iphone.png" width="640" height="960"/&gt;
      &lt;splash src="res/screen/ios/Default-Portrait~ipad.png" width="768" height="1024"/&gt;
      &lt;splash src="res/screen/ios/Default-Landscape~ipad.png" width="1024" height="768"/&gt;
      &lt;splash src="res/screen/ios/Default-568h@2x~iphone.png" width="640" height="1136"/&gt;
    &lt;/platform&gt;
  
  
    &lt;access origin="sms:*" launch-external="yes" /&gt;
    &lt;access origin="geo:*" launch-external="yes" /&gt;
    &lt;access origin="mailto:*" launch-external="yes" /&gt;
    &lt;access origin="tel:*" launch-external="yes" /&gt;
    &lt;access origin="http://*" launch-external="yes" /&gt;
  
  
    &lt;plugin name="cordova-plugin-whitelist"/&gt;
    &lt;allow-intent href="http://*/*"/&gt;
    &lt;allow-intent href="https://*/*"/&gt;
    &lt;allow-intent href="tel:*"/&gt;
    &lt;allow-intent href="sms:*"/&gt;
    &lt;allow-intent href="mailto:*"/&gt;
    &lt;allow-intent href="geo:*"/&gt;
    &lt;platform name="android"&gt;
      &lt;allow-intent href="market:*"/&gt;
    &lt;/platform&gt;
    &lt;platform name="ios"&gt;
      &lt;allow-intent href="itms:*"/&gt;
      &lt;allow-intent href="itms-apps:*"/&gt;
    &lt;/platform&gt;
  &lt;/widget&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am using location.href in index.html to open the url in separte browser. This is working in Android as expected but not in iOS</p>