On occasion links in the WebView will not respond. The highlight press color will appear around them but nothing happens. I am also using WebViewClient's shouldOverrideUrlLoading and that function is not called when this happens.

Edit:

I have narrowed this issue down to the following circumstances:

• The webpage is the first page a WebView opens.
• The webpage uses meta name="viewport" attribute in the html head
• The WebView is using WebView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);
• Android 2.1 (Doesn't appear to happen in later versions, didn't test earlier)

If a webpage meeting those above is opened no links will work. If another similar page is loaded, those links will not work either. It is not until you load a page without meta name="viewport" that links start to work. After a page without that meta attribute is opened and then you load a page with the meta viewport attribute, the links start working.