FF !window.status

[Frances]

Firefox is not respecting window.status, examples in this pg
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~jgwang/jsform02.htm
are ignored by Firefox.. why is this.. is there a solution.. thank you..

Frances

[Randy Webb]

Frances said the following on 2/19/2006 3:58 PM:

Firefox is not respecting window.status,
Actually, it does. It prevents people from changing the status bar and
letting the status bar be used by the UA for what it was intended -
status of the page.

examples in this pg
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~jgwang/jsform02.htm
are ignored by Firefox..
As it should be.
why is this..
See above.
is there a solution..
Yes. Instead of attempting to hijack my status bar, put a div on the
page for extra information, or the title attribute, or.....
thank you..

And thank you for leaving my status bar alone.

--
Randy
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[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Frances wrote:

Firefox is not respecting window.status,
Yes, it is.
[...] why is this..
There is a preference checkbox that can be unchecked (and is probably
unchecked by default) to prevent client-side scripts from changing the
status bar text. This preference is also available for Mozilla Suite
and a number of other user agents. It is because the status bar usually
displays far more useful information compared to what script kiddies
(the irresponsible and largely incompetent type of script programmers)
want it to display.
is there a solution..

Enable the preference.

This is not about /your/ Firefox? Tough luck.
PointedEars

[Frances]

Randy Webb wrote:

Frances said the following on 2/19/2006 3:58 PM:

Firefox is not respecting window.status,

Actually, it does. It prevents people from changing the status bar and
letting the status bar be used by the UA for what it was intended -
status of the page.

examples in this pg
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~jgwang/jsform02.htm
are ignored by Firefox..

As it should be.

why is this..

See above.

is there a solution..

Yes. Instead of attempting to hijack my status bar, put a div on the
page for extra information, or the title attribute, or.....

thank you..

And thank you for leaving my status bar alone.

I think it's kind of stupid to have a window on which it always "DONE"
at the bottom w/o being able to change it.. but oh well... thank you for
yr response..

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Frances wrote:

Randy Webb wrote:

Frances said the following on 2/19/2006 3:58 PM:

Firefox is not respecting window.status,

Actually, it does. It prevents people from changing the status bar and
letting the status bar be used by the UA for what it was intended -
status of the page.
[...]

I think it's kind of stupid to have a window on which it always "DONE"
at the bottom w/o being able to change it.. [...]

You did not understand. The status bar is to display status information
about the window (and the document it shows). For example, if I would move
the mouse pointer over a visible hyperlink, it would display the URI of the
linked resource, and if I clicked the hyperlink, it would display the load
status of the target document (before it is showing it). The status bar
does not necessarily display "DONE" all the time, provided that there is
even a status bar. In fact, if there is a status bar, "DONE" is what it
rather displays least of the time. Observe yourselves more closely when
web-browsing and you will probably see this to be true.

There are undoubtedly reasonable approaches to modify the status bar text
but the other approaches have been used much more on the Web by the people
I described in my other posting, with rather disturbing effects to
usability. Hence the existence of the preference (in Firefox
1.5.0.1/Linux: Edit, Preferences, Content, [x] Enable JavaScript, Advanced,
Allow scripts to: [x] Change status bar text), and the fact that it is
probably unchecked by default.
PointedEars

[David Dorward]

Frances wrote:

Randy Webb wrote:

And thank you for leaving my status bar alone.

I think it's kind of stupid to have a window on which it always "DONE"
at the bottom w/o being able to change it

It isn't. I point at a link, it shows me where that link goes.

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David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me .uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

[caston]

BTW: IE7 is doing the same.

[Randy Webb]

caston said the following on 2/20/2006 5:37 AM:

BTW: IE7 is doing the same.

"doing the same" as what?

Please quote what you are replying to.

If you want to post a followup via groups.google.c om, don't use the
"Reply" link at the bottom of the article. Click on "show options" at
the top of the article, then click on the "Reply" at the bottom of the
article headers.

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Randy
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[Frances]

caston wrote:

BTW: IE7 is doing the same.

oh man.. that's just grand!....;)

(btw, is it true IE7 will not work in Win 2000?)

[Randy Webb]

Frances said the following on 2/20/2006 12:34 PM:

caston wrote:

BTW: IE7 is doing the same.

oh man.. that's just grand!....;)

(btw, is it true IE7 will not work in Win 2000?)

Yes, it is true according to MS but what MS says is like the wind in a
windstorm. It's apt to change at any minute.

--
Randy
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