Re: Mouseover URL spoof with IE

[Danny <nocmonkey () gmail com>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:24:29 -0800, Thor Larholm <thor () pivx com> wrote:
> I'm guessing you are refering to the status bar which displays the
> address of a link onmouseover.


Yes, the status bar which displays the address of a hyperlink
onmouseover... can the actual hyperlink (when the user left clicks or
opens) be different from what is displayed in the status bar
onmouseover?
 
> The addressbar can by design be programmatically changed to display
> anything you want at any time, including when you hover over a link and
> the onmouseover event fires. Simply change the window.status property
> from JS.

Based on my answer above, I take this as a definite "yes" by the means
of the web designer/developer simply changing the window.status
property in their java script?

Thank you,

...D
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