Re: status=no compatibility problems

Simon Wigzell wrote :
> I have a little asp progress bar window that I open up with javascript,
> sized and located, all the extras turned off. It works by refreshing itself
> every second and displaying how much a file upload has progressed. (This is
> a paid for 3rd party thing so don't ask me to change the way it works!) Even
> though I have "status=no" in the javascript window.open statment it has a
> status bar and every second the status bar does its thing where it displays
> its own little progress bar and the word "done", obviously this is only
> going to cause confusion with what the rest of the window is doing.
>
> I've been experimenting with status=no
>
> This little test page opens another window without status bar if I run it
> locally on my PC but not if I run it from the server. (I'm XP, server is Win
> 2003)
>
> http://www.mississippiprinting.com/NewTest/test.htm
>
> If I run it from the server in Netscape it doesn't have the status bar.
> If I run it locally in firefox it does!
>
> So it looks like turning off the status bar is not as easy as sending the
> right javascript code to do it.

Everything has been summed up here:

DOM:window.open()
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window.open#Note_on_status_bar
"The default preference setting in recent Mozilla-based browser releases
and in Firefox 1.0 is to force the presence of the status bar."

"In MSIE 6 for XP SP2: For windows opened using window.open():
     For windows opened using window.open():
     'Expect the status bar to be present, and code for it. The status
bar will be on by default and is 20-25 pixels in height. (...)'
     quote from Fine-Tune Your Web Site for Windows XP Service Pack 2,
Browser Window Restrictions in XP SP2
"

etc.

Gérard

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