Controlling refresh in Netscape browsers

[Vizier]

How can I prevent refreshing in Netscape 4 and 6 series by controlling the Ctrl + R and the F5 keys? It is a little urgent liorean, alien51, and brothercake pls help me out!!!!

Thanks in advance!
Vizier :confused:

[liorean]

For nn4, I don't think there is anything you can do. You could always go have a look at the usual place, <http://www.din.or.jp/~hagi3/JavaScript/JSTips/Mozilla/Samples/KeyEvent.htm>, and experiment from there, but I don't think there's anything you can do about it.

As for Mozilla and derivates such as Netscape>5 however, you can only override it if you change the key bindings. (They are contained in some XUL, RDF or XBL file somewhere, I would guess under the chrome directory)

In other words, you can't do it in a webpage. (There is a possibility that you can if you enable universal browser read, but I doubt it. That's a security override, not a privacy override)


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I didn't really read the question at first. Sorry about that.]

[Vizier]

liorean,

Kindly think it over again and give me an optimistic answers please.

Vizier:(

[liorean]

Oh, you can capture the document key event, but not the user interface event by JavaScript. Thus, if you cancel the event, you only cancel it's effect in the documnt, not it's effect on the user interface. I'm sorry, but there is nothing you can do.

[Vizier]

liorean, alien51, and brothercake,

Is there anyway I could prevent the refreshing of the page by the F 5 key in Netscape 6???

:(
Vizier

[liorean]

... there is no way.

[brothercake]

As liorean said - no, there is no way.

[Vizier]

Can I not use the CancelBubble() method or the preventDefault() method of Netscape 6 to achieve this. Pls comment liorean, brothercake, and Alien51???
:confused:

Thanks in advance......
Vizier

[liorean]

As I said, you can stop document events, but not interface events. The reloading of the page is an interface event.

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