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html and onMouseOver

M

M0RPH

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Years ago I used this Javascript code to hide long links from the surfer. It should make it so they only see the short url in the status bar when they hover over the link.

Now I cannot get it to work in either IE8 or FF3.5. I've stripped it down to this bare minimum code for testing:

Code: 
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>

<body>
<a href="http://refer.somesite.com/code=350238502394" onMouseOver="window.status='http://www.somesite.com';return true">CLICK HERE</a>
</html>
Has something changed in new browsers that makes this not work?
 
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It has depreciated, and for good reason IMO. People usually don't read the status bar, and when they do, the like to know where they are going. The depreciation helps to cut down on the website spoofing that fishers use to try and make their links look more legitimate.
 
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