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Bug 24277 - 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)
Summary: status bar and toolbar should be defined as what they are rather than their p...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2014-01-13 08:28 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-03-08 00:02 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2014-01-13 08:28:53 UTC 
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
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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)
Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2014-01-13 08:44:30 UTC 
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
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-01-13 23:41:42 UTC 
Actually isn't the Back button usually on the location bar, historically?

Anyway, done.
Comment 3 contributor 2014-01-13 23:42:12 UTC 
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
Comment 4 Simon Pieters 2014-01-15 07:00:06 UTC 
(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
Comment 5 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-03-08 00:02:53 UTC 
Oh man, those images bring back memories of simpler days.