[thelist] Is changing window.status='evil?';

[Shashank Tripathi]

Simon,

Perhaps what you mean is similar to
http://snipurl.com/else.php

It shows the URL in the status bar so the user knows where (s)he is
clicking. You could perhaps
Allow your users to add a small note/description to the links they store
in their directories which is shown alongside the redirect link.
Another idea could be visually SHOW the original link on the webpage,
but to have the HREF to the redirect page?

Shanx


    | That's a very interesting question. I am currently
    | working on a soon-to-be open source PHP directory script,
    | which allows site owners to arrange a collection of links
    | in to hierarchical directories (DMOA / Yahoo style). The
    | script includes the facility to count how many times a
    | link has been clicked on, by directing all clicks through
    | a redirect.php script that takes the link ID from the
    | query string, increments the link's hit counter and
    | redirects the user to the link's URL with Location header.
    |
    | The downside of this approach is that user's have no way
    | of knowing where they will end up when they click on a
    | link (the status bar displays redirect.php?whatever).
    |
    | My solution at the moment is to use window.status to
    | display the URL that the user will end up at. However,
    | this leaves no visual clue that a redirect will occur.
    |
    | Is this approach acceptable?
    |