146025 - no window.status

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

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

Description

[Eckhart Triebel]

Mozilla 1.0 (rc1, rc2) does not respond to:

window.status and window.defaultStatus

and if 'return true' is added some like:

window.status="bla";return true;

the javascript-console reports:

Fehler: invalid return
Quelldatei: file:///D:/JavaScript/test.htm
Zeile: 24
Quellcode:
return true;

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

Browser, not engine. Reassigning to DOM Level 0.

I cannot confirm this bug using Mozilla trunk binary 2002052008 on WinNT.
The following javascript:URL works perfectly:

    javascript: window.status="bla"; alert(window.status);


Eckhart: do you have any new settings in Mozilla? For example:

  Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Scripts & Windows > "Change status bar text"

Is this unchecked?


If this doesn't explain it, could you attach a reduced HTML testcase
by using the "Create a New Attachment" link above? Thanks -

Comment 2

[Prashant Desale]

Same for me.
It seems working fine for me on windows NT on 05-21-08-trunk.
Window Status testcase at 
http://bubblegum/ngdriver/suites/javascript/win024.html passes too.

Eckhart Triebel, could you please attach a testcase that fails as Phil suggests.

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

Attachment: Testcase #1

Comment 4

[Phil Schwartau]

Testcase #1 is a simple one with just one <div> element:

<div onMouseover="window.status='Hello'; return true;" 
     onMouseout="window.status='';">

  Mouseover this div. Does the status bar show a message?

</div>


This WORKSFORME using current Mozilla trunk builds.
|window.status| is successfully changed to 'Hello' and back.

Comment 5

[Phil Schwartau]

Eckhart reports that testcase #1 does not work for him:

> NO ! Even that doesn't work. 
> ecka 

> System: Win 98 SE, PC pentium III, 650 MHz, via-chipset, 128 mb RAM 
> Browser: RC1 en, RC2 de 


Eckhart: on testcase #1, do you still get that "invalid return" 
error in the JavaScript Console? 

Comment 6

[Eckhart Triebel]

hi people,

now i know the 'bug': i have to check "Change status bar text" in preferences. 
I'm sorry. Bug nr. 146025 can be deleted. 

thanks for your efforts
ecka 

Comment 7

[Prashant Desale]

As per Eckhart's comments, marking this bug Invalid.

Comment 8

[Prashant Desale]

Verified Invalid

Comment 9

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

*** Bug 319938 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***