[Javascript] problem with status line

Mon Aug 8 22:14:51 CDT 2005

I'm new to JavaScript and am using O'Rielly's book, JavaScript The  
Difinitive Guide to help me along.

The following is a script from the book that displays a digital clock  
in the status bar:

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
  <head>
   <title>XHTML 1.0 Strict Template</title>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;  
charset=iso-8859-1" />
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />
   <script type="text/javascript">

function display_time_in_status_line()
{
	var d = new Date();
	var h = d.getHours();
	var m = d.getMinutes();
	var s = d.getSeconds();
	var ampm = (h >= 12)? "PM":"AM";
	if (h > 12) h -= 12;
	if (h == 0) h = 12;
	if (m < 10) m = "0" + m;
	if (s < 10) s = "0" +s
	var t = h +':' + m + ":" + s + " " + ampm;

	defaultStatus = t;

	setTimeout("display_time_in_status_line()" , 100);

}

</script>

  </head>

  <body onload="display_time_in_status_line();">

</body>
</html>

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After (hopefully) finding all the typos and trying different script  
tags I got this script to work fine in Safari 1.3 (v312), Netscape 7.1  
and Internet Explorer 5.2 for the Mac, I'm working on a G4 iBook.

When I run this script in Camino 2005042806 (v0.8.4) the time is just  
time-stamped in the status line and it doesn't work at all in Firefox  
1.0

Any ideas?

Thanks, Brian