remove/hide statusbar in already open window

[flashbbeb]

I'm familiar with being able to control which browser elements (i.e. scrollbars, status, etc.) are visible using open.window...

In my current case, I am trying to control the visibility for those elements for a child window opened by a learning management system. After the window has opened, I have been able to automatically resize it with JS in the child window.

Is there any way for me to hide the statusbar after the child window has already opened?

Thanks!
EB

 

[feherke]

Hi

Try to set [tt]window.statusbar[/tt] :

window.statusbar.visible=false

Note that will probably work only in Explorer.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[flashbbeb]

Thanks, feherke.

I'm getting the error that "window.statusbar is null or not an object". No matter how I call it - in the header, by internal function, or call to an external file with the function.

I found something on "UniversalBrowserWrite" privilege for Netscape, but that doesn't affect me since all my users are using IE6.

Any thoughts?

 

[feherke]

Hi

Oops. I was wrong. In fact, that property was never implemented in Explorer.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Kendel]

Internet Explorer has been modified to not turn off the status bar for any windows. The status bar is always visible for all Internet Explorer windows. (...) Without this change, windows that are created using the window.open() method can be called by scripts and spoof a user interface or desktop or hide malicious information or activity by hiding important elements of the user interface from the user.
The status bar is a security feature of Internet Explorer windows that provides Internet Explorer security zone information to the user. This zone cannot be spoofed (...)"

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM:window.open#Note_on_security_issues_of_the_status_bar_presence

 

[flashbbeb]

Kendel - good info, thanks. That confirms a few other things I've read about IE's status bar and security.

Here's a little back story that makes me still wonder this can be done...

A variable in what I'm doing I forgot to mention is that I'm using an authoring tool (Lectora), and adding the code via a nice front-end part of the application.

My company previously used "Trainersoft", another authoring tool. All courses published to our LMS via Trainersoft display no status bar when they load.

With that in mind, I'll continue checking the code in the Trainersoft published files for something - it may not be a JS function, but there has got to be something that disables that bar.