- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:15:41 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > > Are JavaScript implementors willing to reimplement window.status? There are > obvious security problems with drawing an author-provided string where a > certain URI is expected, but could window.defaultStatus not set the name > (_NET_WM_NAME or equivalent) of the script's window and window.status either > override window.defaultStatus temporarily, or sent to the user, e.g. through > Growl or as a Windows toast. > The window name is already accessible to scripts (by modifying the text child > of <title> through the DOM) so no new security concerns are introduced. The > Growl binding might well be better by a new function, though. Historically, window.status support has been removed by browsers. In practice, many browsers no longer have status bars anyway. On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, James Graham wrote: > > If you want OS-level notifications you might be interested in [1] > > [1] http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebNotifications/ Indeed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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