[thelist] Status bar of Opera 6

[DESCHAMPS Stéphane DvSI/SICoR]

> De : thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]De la part de Syed
> Zeeshan Haider
>
> Hello Experts,
> Many experts here have stated in their different posts that
> changing the text of
> status bar for links with JS is not a good choice. The user
> would like to know
> about his destination through status bar before clicking the
> link, as the URL is
> shown as the text of status bar. I agree!

Hi Syed,

It's not _bad_ per se.

Think for example about this (this example has already been brought up in discussions on thelist):
Imagine a website that uses a systematic redirection page like so: http://example.com/redir.php?goto=125 and matches it with a DB that says id=125 -> go to http://evolt.org

Why not use your link like such:
<a href="/redir.php?goto=125" onmouseover="window.status='http://evolt.org/'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">Go!</a>

Here you've reused the window.status to improve the apparent usability of your site, haven't you. Benefits:
- the user sees the _actual_ URL they're going to be redirected to
- you can still do whataver you want with your redirect page (typically, count how many users have gone from your site to evolt.org, for instance)

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