Q1737 On Netscape 4.0 & 4.6 for the Mac resizing the window will break all of your hyperlinks' onClick actions

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Q1737 On Netscape 4.0 & 4.6 for the Mac resizing the window will break all of your hyperlinks' onClick actions

Mark Chrisman writes:

This is a netscape/mac bug & workaround. On Netscape 4.0 & 4.6 for the Mac (I didn't check earlier Netscape versions), resizing the window will break all of your hyperlinks' onClick actions. For example:

<a href="" onclick="my_fancy_function()">click</a>

Here's the workaround (looks stupid, but I'm not kidding, it works!):

window.onresize = function () {
  if (navigator.appName.indexOf('Netscape') != -1) {
    if (document.links.length>0) {
      document.links[0].onclick = document.links[0].onclick;
    }
  }
}

Interestingly, you don't need to iterate over all the links. Performing this meaningless action on document.links[0] will fix all the links.

I haven't tested the workaround in a document with layers or frames.