[thelist] Holy Status Bar Batman

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 10:16:35 CDT 2005


> Any thoughts on why the status bar is occasionally showing up?

Because it gives the visitor information which some browser vendors
thought important enough to suppress the option to turn off the status
bar via scripting.
A support chart (in German) is here, should be rather obvious:
http://de.selfhtml.org/javascript/objekte/window.htm#open

You cannot win this battle, the browser chrome is the user's not yours
to define.

Your above link is even more annoying, as the link will not work
without JavaScript and "click here" is not making sense when someone
cannot see your page but only hear it.

Why don't you just use a fixed size layout and center it in the
browser? Same effect, less hassle.



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