Manipulating the status bar

[domenic]

When you hover over <a href="http://example.com/">, "example.com" appears in the status bar.

When you hover over <custom-a href="http://example.com/">, no such thing happens.

Back in the day window.status used to work. No idea what to do here nowadays.

[arv]

I'm not sure we need to do anything here. This is not an observable part of the platform.

[domenic]

I think user-observable instead of developer-observable still counts.

[jmc734]

We need to be careful about how we think about this feature. The browser is essentially displaying the end state, the state of the window location, reached by triggering a click event on that element. Following that model, it could be argued that for the browser should simulate that event and determine the end state for the user. That is obviously impractical for a number of reasons.