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Awesome! It's once of the coolest features I've seen! 0 0%
A nice tiny feature. 0 0%
Don't care if it's there or not. 1 8.33%
Extremely annoying! Designers who do that should be dragged out and shot. 11 91.67%
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Old 05-03-2003, 08:15 PM   #1
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What do you hink of scrolling text in browsers?

What do you think of the scrolling text in the status field bar area in your web browser?
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Old 05-04-2003, 12:28 AM   #2
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It's quite annoying. I like to know what kind of link I'm clicking on, and having the text down there forces me to right click it and go to properties if I'm curious. Not to mention that it simply looks bad in all cases.
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Old 05-04-2003, 06:05 AM   #3
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Hate it

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For the record, I hate people doing ANYTHING with that area.
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Old 05-05-2003, 01:44 PM   #5
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Lol, I guess the consensus is "Don't do it!"

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Hate it...in my Mozilla prefs, changing the status bar text is not allowed.
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Old 05-05-2003, 02:44 PM   #7
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Hate it...in my Mozilla prefs, changing the status bar text is not allowed.
ditto
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