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From: saraltoms on 16 Jul 2010 07:25
Hi,

I have some issue in identifying if the status bar is visible or
hidden in a window.

window.statusbar will return the statusbar object of the window. And
window.statusbar.visible will return true, if the status bar is
visible. The issue here is , even if the status bar is hidden in my
current window, the window.statusbar.visible returns true.

Is there a javascript solution to identify if the status bar is
visible or hidden in firefox browser ?

Does anybody came across this issue in Firefox ?

Inputs will be greatly appreciated.

Saral
From: Richard Cornford on 16 Jul 2010 10:44
saraltoms wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some issue in identifying if the status bar is visible
> or hidden in a window.
>
> window.statusbar will return the statusbar object of the
> window. And window.statusbar.visible will return true, if
> the status bar is visible. The issue here is , even if the
> status bar is hidden in my current window, the
> window.statusbar.visible returns true.
>
> Is there a javascript solution to identify if the status
> bar is visible or hidden in firefox browser ?
>
> Does anybody came across this issue in Firefox ?
>
> Inputs will be greatly appreciated.

Why on earth do you care? What do you prose doing (or not doing)
depending on whether the user has chosen to have the sates bar shown or
not?

Richard.

From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 16 Jul 2010 11:28
Richard Cornford wrote:

> saraltoms wrote:
>> I have some issue in identifying if the status bar is visible
>> or hidden in a window.
>>
>> window.statusbar will return the statusbar object of the
>> window. And window.statusbar.visible will return true, if
>> the status bar is visible. The issue here is , even if the
>> status bar is hidden in my current window, the
>> window.statusbar.visible returns true.
>>
>> Is there a javascript solution to identify if the status
>> bar is visible or hidden in firefox browser ?
>>
>> Does anybody came across this issue in Firefox ?
>>
>> Inputs will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Why on earth do you care? What do you prose doing (or not doing)
> depending on whether the user has chosen to have the sates bar shown or
> not?

It is possible that they would like to know whether they can generally use
the status bar for displaying additional information.

A default read-only `window.status' property
(dom.disable_window_status_change == true) and a default forced status bar
display for popup windows (dom.disable_window_open_feature.status == true)
in recent Mozilla-based browsers notwithstanding, it is certainly a bug in
the Gecko DOM that `window.statusbar.visible' would yield `true' even if the
status bar is not displayed. I could confirm this bug in Iceweasel 3.6.3
(Mozilla/Gecko 1.9.2.3, build 20100404).


PointedEars
--
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positively harmful for cross-browser scripting.
-- Richard Cornford, cljs, <cife6q$253$1$8300dec7(a)news.demon.co.uk> (2004)
From: Dr J R Stockton on 17 Jul 2010 16:17
In comp.lang.javascript message <1dWdnQ_d2JDe7d3RnZ2dnUVZ7sadnZ2d(a)gigane
ws.com>, Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:44:04, Richard Cornford
<Richard(a)litotes.demon.co.uk> posted:
>saraltoms wrote:
>> I have some issue in identifying if the status bar is visible
>> or hidden in a window.
>>
>> window.statusbar will return the statusbar object of the
>> window. And window.statusbar.visible will return true, if
>> the status bar is visible. The issue here is , even if the
>> status bar is hidden in my current window, the
>> window.statusbar.visible returns true.
>>
>> Is there a javascript solution to identify if the status
>> bar is visible or hidden in firefox browser ?


>Why on earth do you care? What do you prose doing (or not doing)
>depending on whether the user has chosen to have the sates bar shown or
>not?


That is a very ill-mannered (and careless) response to a perfectly
reasonable question.

There is one ambiguity in it, however; is "hidden" to be taken in the
HTML/CSS sense, or does it refer to whether the corresponding marks can
actually be seen on the (presumed to be working normally) screen? AIUI,
the latter cannot be detected; but the question remains valid.

--
(c) John Stockton, nr London, UK. ?@merlyn.demon.co.uk Turnpike v6.05.
Web <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> - w. FAQish topics, links, acronyms
PAS EXE etc : <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/programs/> - see 00index.htm
Dates - miscdate.htm estrdate.htm js-dates.htm pas-time.htm critdate.htm etc.
From: David Mark on 17 Jul 2010 22:52
On Jul 17, 4:17 pm, Dr J R Stockton <reply1...(a)merlyn.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
> In comp.lang.javascript message <1dWdnQ_d2JDe7d3RnZ2dnUVZ7sadnZ2d(a)gigane
> ws.com>, Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:44:04, Richard Cornford
> <Rich...(a)litotes.demon.co.uk> posted:
>
> >saraltoms wrote:
> >> I have some issue in identifying if the status bar is visible
> >> or hidden in a window.
>
> >> window.statusbar will return the statusbar object of the
> >> window. And window.statusbar.visible will return true, if
> >> the status bar is visible. The issue here is , even if the
> >> status bar is hidden in my current window, the
> >> window.statusbar.visible returns true.
>
> >> Is there a javascript solution to identify if the status
> >> bar is visible or hidden in firefox browser ?
> >Why on earth do you care? What do you prose doing (or not doing)
> >depending on whether the user has chosen to have the sates bar shown or
> >not?
>
> That is a very ill-mannered (and careless) response to a perfectly
> reasonable question.

Doc, you are not one to lecture on manners. As for careless, I
believe Richard has stated that he is dyslexic, so typos in his posts
are to be expected (and ignored by well-mannered participants).

>
> There is one ambiguity in it, however; is "hidden" to be taken in the
> HTML/CSS sense,

In *what* sense?

> or does it refer to whether the corresponding marks can
> actually be seen on the (presumed to be working normally) screen?

Talk about ambiguous. What marks?

> AIUI,
> the latter cannot be detected; but the question remains valid.
>

The question is valid and the answer is no (at least at this time).
But as this is not a help desk, discussions of the OP's motivations
are appropriate.
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