Q1748 Netscape Navigator 4 loses the onMouseDown event handlers after a window resize

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Ok, here is a cure to the resize and lost onMouseDown event blues. In the body tag, define an onResize event handler which will invoke a reset() function to just set onMouseDown to anything for the link. All event handlers are back! In this example I've done it for link #1 but not link #2. onMouseDown events still work after a window resize for link #1, but not for link #2. Note that link #2 will still generate an onMouseDown event on a double click, but not on a single one:

<html>

<head>

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
function reset() {
  document.links[0].onMouseDown = "";
}
//--></script>

</head>

<body onresize="reset()">

<a href="javascript:void(0);" onMouseDown="alert('Mouse 1 is down');">Testing 1</a>
<br>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onMouseDown="alert('Mouse 2 is down');">Testing 2</a>
</body>

</html>