24277 2014-01-13 08:28:53 +0000 status bar and toolbar should be defined as what they are rather than their position (the toolbar is sometimes at the bottom and the status bar can be e.g. inside the address bar) 2014-03-08 00:02:53 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-status-bar-barprop-object P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike zcorpan contributor oldest_to_newest 98314 0 contributor 2014-01-13 08:28:53 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/browsers.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-status-bar-barprop-object Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-status-bar-barprop-object Referrer: Comment: status bar and toolbar should be defined as what they are rather than their position (the toolbar is sometimes at the bottom and the status bar can be e.g. inside the address bar) Posted from: 90.230.218.37 by simonp@opera.com User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1700.68 Safari/537.36 OPR/19.0.1326.26 (Edition Next) 98315 1 zcorpan 2014-01-13 08:44:30 +0000 maybe status bar: information about ongoing network activity, the target and pings of a link, or similar toolbar: contains a list of commands as buttons, typically at least the "back" button 98376 2 ian 2014-01-13 23:41:42 +0000 Actually isn't the Back button usually on the location bar, historically? Anyway, done. 98377 3 contributor 2014-01-13 23:42:12 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r8393. Check-in comment: Vaguely try to clarify 'status bar' and 'toolbar' for the mostly obsolete BarProp APIs. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8392&to=8393 98480 4 zcorpan 2014-01-15 07:00:06 +0000 (In reply to Ian 'Hixie' Hickson from comment #2) > Actually isn't the Back button usually on the location bar, historically? Nope http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Netscape_Navigator.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/d/d3/20130716231348!IE_6_SP3_XP_screenshot.PNG 102096 5 ian 2014-03-08 00:02:53 +0000 Oh man, those images bring back memories of simpler days.