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Oct 29.2007

Hi everybody,

I need some help with this piece of code:

<script language=”javascript”>
function scrollingStatus(){
var msg = “Sometextcomeshere”
windows.status = msg
msg = msg.substring(1, msg.lenght) + msg.substring(0, 1)
setTimeout(“scrollingStatus()”, 100)
}
</script>

I was hoping this would add a scrolling text on browser’s status bar. But nothing happened.

What did I do wrong? Is there error in the code? Or something wrong with my browser? (I’m using IE 7).

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@KorOct 29.2007 — For the beginning, let me tell you that no one uses messages written on status bar anymore. The reasons are:

  • 1. Users expect to see something else on status bar [I]if[/I] they look down there (the status of the page loding, the url when mouseover a link)

  • 2. When reading a page, humans analyze it from top left (top right for the right-to-left writing languages) to the bottom. Bottom status bar is the [I]last place[/I] where to place a message. User might easily miss it.

  • 3. Mozilla browsers do not permit the overwriting of the status bar. Opera has also an option to prevent that (and Opera users prefer to choose that option)
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