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Why does my key event handling for NN4 not work on Linux?

Sep 13th, 2000 03:55
Hatto von Hatzfeld, Martin Honnen,

Key event handling with NN4 on linux (maybe other unix platforms as 
well) is totally unreliable and better avoided.
  document.onkeydown/onkeypress/onkeyup
don't seem to fire at all, the same handlers for text fields and text 
areas fire but unreliably and the text field/area's value is not 
correctly reflected into js.
There doesn't appear to be a general workaround but keep using js1.1 
onchange/onblur handlers for form input handling on linux.

In some situations however (when it's not necessary to associate a key 
press with a certain text field) it may be a workaround to set the focus 
into a text field and to get the events by document.onkey*. If you call 
the same function by document.onkey* and by the corresponding handler of 
the textarea you should have a solution which works on other browsers, 
too.