Question

You know that text that appears in the bottom left of your browser when you mouseover a link? How do you change that?

I’m a competent programmer so I don’t need a code sample or handholding, but a high level approach would be great.

Thanks!

Answer 1

In old browsers, you could set the property window.status to modify the text in the status bar. Because this holds serious security issues (the user could be tricked into clicking on a link which leads to another target), all modern browsers deactivated this feature.