[thelist] status bar removal

Tim Burgan burgan at iprimus.com.au
Fri Mar 14 17:39:51 CST 2003


fair enough.. i'll leave the status bar

but - in your comments about leaving the status bar alone, 
do you thing that including a status bar message for links (onmouseover) is ok or is that unprofessional?

thanks very much Erik - as your solution will not remove the status bar, but it will stop the page loading forever.

just to clear things up.. the issue wasn't to remove the status bar so users couldn't see what's going on. It was the I had a blank html page which a flash swf was embedded in. I want to load this into an "invisable" frame because there is no graphic content in the swf, just audio that starts streaming from frame 1. Therefore, the music starts playing within 3 seconds (even on 56k modems), but the status bar will continue to say 'Opening Page: rah rah' until the music stops. When really the page was loaded, just the swf wasn't all there.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Edward George 
  To: 'evolt.org mailing list devoted to the web' 
  Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 4:30 AM
  Subject: RE: [thelist] status bar removal


  Here here, <rant>
  It's bad enough that IE6 removes its status bar randomly as it is.
  What I really hate is when someone resizes the window
  Cause then ie thinks that I like it at that size at it takes forever of
  resizing windows to make it stop and go back to my preferred size.
  But then I know that it's my fault for using ie as my general surfing
  browser.
  </rant>
  -----Original Message-----
  From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
  [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Koutoulas, Pete
  Sent: 14 March 2003 16:09
  To: 'evolt.org mailing list devoted to the web'
  Subject: RE: [thelist] status bar removal

  On Friday, March 14, 2003 9:32 AM, Tim Burgan wrote:

  > Is it possible to remove the status bar from a parent window?
  > 
  > For example: if a user surfs to my site from a link somewhere, once
  > they enter my site - the status bar from their window is removed. I
  > don't want to load the page in a child window in order to do this.  
  > 
  > Reson to do so: I'm developing a page for an artist at
  > www.greaterthani.com/preview .. if you click on one of the audio
  > squares, it will load a swf file into a "hidden" frame. The audio in
  > the swf streams. The problem is that the status bar says 'Opening
  > page: blah blah' until the whole swf is loaded, and I don't want this
  > to be the case.     

  disclaimer: This response is a personal opinion on the validity of what
  you
  want to do, not an offer to help you do it. You may quit reading now if
  you
  are not interested in my opinion.

  Tim, you are EVIL!! ;-)

  Seriously, FWIW, I think doing what you propose is not a good thing. As
  a
  user, I get *very* annoyed at web designers who mess with my status bar,
  scroll bar, right-click menu, and so forth. Those things should be
  completely off-limits to the web designer and if I were the omnipotent
  king
  of the Web, I would make it so. ;-)

      [ pete ]

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