How do I hide what's in the status bar?

[kaht]

When my project jumps from page to page, in the status bar it shows opening page: blahblahblahblah

I'm assuming the users aren't gonna be this smart, but they could feasibly take a screen capture (cause it disappears pretty fast) to see the address for each page, and then they could feasibly access other accounts by massaging the data that goes into the address bar. I know that researching web security would be better, but for right now I just need to make this work and I'm sure it can't be that hard. I've seen scrolling marquee messages in the status bar on plenty of other sites. Thanks in advance for any tips.

-kaht

[Khalid Ali]

you canprobably stop message posting on the status bar ,but I doubt it that you can disable it altogether to not show browsers default activity(such as showiong the url of the page being loaded).

In my opinion what you can do is create a custom window when user comes to your page and in that window just don't show the status bar at all....

[kdcgrohl]

you could constantly rewrite window.status like so.


setInterval("window.status=' ';",10);

[AdamGundry]

Presumably an interval of 0 (as fast as possible) would be better than 10ms between resets. Anyway, this will not be secure - as Khalid said, you can't rely on it, and some users (like me) set their browsers to disallow status bar changes or have Javascript disabled.

Adam