Re: FN-FORUM: status bar text

date posted 18th May 2007 16:08

Hi,

I think one shouldn't be able to amend status bar information anyway.
It is browser interface. It has nothing to do with website. Similar to
IE7 s(l)idebar hack...

Jay



On 18 May 2007 13:47:26 -0000, Claire [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Firefox and latest Explorer. I guess that's a no then!
>
> Claire.
>
> David Leedham wrote:
> > http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/02/13/Zones-and-Default-Settings.aspx
> > says from IE7 on we can't modify the status bar.
> >
> > Claire, what browser are you using?
> >
> > David
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of David
> > Leedham
> > Sent: 18 May 2007 13:41
> > To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: status bar text
> >
> >
> > Weird.
> > It works in my editor and also in opera
> > (http://leedham.com/statusscroller.htm) but not IE7 or FireFox.
> > I'll keep on thinking.
> >
> > David
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Claire
> > Sent: 18 May 2007 13:00
> > To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: status bar text
> >
> >
> > I know: I was hoping nobody would notice... ;-)
> >
> > I tried the code but it does nothing at all now (displays nothing). Not
> > sure why that is...
> >
> > Claire.
> >
> > David Leedham wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I think you can stop it looping if you change the wiper function like
> >>
> > this:
> >
> >> function wiper()
> >> {
> >> if (stcnt >> {
> >> if (stcnt > -1) str = wmsg[stcnt]; else str = wmsg[0];
> >> if (stcnt-- < -40) stcnt=31;
> >> status = str;
> >> clearTimeout(timeID);
> >> timeID = setTimeout("wiper()",100);
> >> }
> >>
> >> }
> >>
> >> Incidentally, this mentions nothing about missing children, bad parents or
> >> journalism so slightly of topic!!
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Claire
> >> Sent: 18 May 2007 11:37
> >> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> >> Subject: FN-FORUM: status bar text
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I am trying to use some code I found on javascriptkit to display text on
> >> the status bar. It animates slowly and then stops which is perfect.
> >> But it then loops. I don't understand the code to work out how to stop
> >> it from looping. Does anyone know how to do this with the below piece of
> >> code please?
> >>
> >> I will be eternally grateful!
> >>
> >> Claire.
> >>
> >>
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