I am a windows user with no Apple experience. (Please forgive me

When I add a link in a website, pointing to another site, (with target=blank), it works perfectly well in all windows browsers (IE Chrome etc). When I test the same thing on an iPad, it re-opens my page, and does not open the linked site.
I have found this with links to Google Maps in particular.
To start with, I have no idea if the problem relates to me, my code, or OS X.
Is there somebody else here with a similar problem? Or can somebody please point me in the right direction ?
Many thanks in advance
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