Transient status bar message won't display for image hotspots in IE6.02

[momcoder]

I would like to create a transient status bar message when a hot spot on an image map is hovered over. What I have works in Netscape, but not in IE 6.02. However, oddly, the same code does work fine in IE 6.02 when I use it with anchor tags instead of an image map. Can anyone explain why that is, and tell me how to recode it to work with an image map? Here's what I have:

<area shape="circle" coords="88,32,7" href="info.htm" onmouseover="window.status='History Info'; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true">

[Logician]

I would like to create a transient status bar message when a hot spot on an image map is hovered over. What I have works in Netscape, but not in IE 6.02. However, oddly, the same code does work fine in IE 6.02 when I use it with anchor tags instead of an image map. Can anyone explain why that is, and tell me how to recode it to work with an image map?

The text is probably being overwritten by the normal URL display. The usual fix is to set a timeout to display say 50ms after mouseover, but there's no guarantee that JS will be allowed to overwrite what's there.