106113 - window.status not functioning correctly when placed within a function

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 99009

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Matthew Schultz]

Below is an example of the problem code.  This workaround allows the onMouseOver
status change to work correctly but when commenting out the 4th line of the
function and enabling the 1st line of the function, the status change fails.  I
am using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011

<script language="Javascript">
<!--
function changeStatus(statusValue){
//window.status = "Select seat " + seatNum;
//Above is the line of code that should work correctly but does not
//Below is a bug workaround for the above code in Mozilla and MSIE 5.x
window.setTimeout('window.status="Change Status ' + statusValue + '"', 1);
return true;
}
//-->
</script>

<img src="/images/some_image.gif" width="100" height="100" usemap="#imageMap"
border="0">

<map name="imageMap">
<area shape="rect" coords="659,177,740,206" onMouseOver="changeStatus(2);return
true;" href="javascript://">
</map>

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

Browser, not Rhino! Reassigning to DOM Level 0 under Browser product -

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Attachment: Reporter's HTML testcase

Comment 3

[Matthew Schultz]

Here's code to adjust the image map so you can mouseover the mozilla.org area 
on the banner for testing.

<img src="/images/mozilla-banner.gif" width="600" height="58" usemap="#imageMap"
border="0">
<map name="imageMap">
<area shape="rect" coords="296,11,560,47" onMouseOver="changeStatus(2);return 
true;" href="javascript://">
</map>

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99009 ***

Comment 5

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

verified dupe of bug#99009