FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?

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FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location
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This text can only be altered by changing the URL of the page.
The normal solution is to use frames, though this can introduce
problems of its own.


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[OmegaJunior]

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FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location
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This text can only be altered by changing the URL of the page.
The normal solution is to use frames, though this can introduce
problems of its own.

Changing the text in the address bar is _not done_.

Why would you assume the audacity to change the user's computer at all?
The browser is the user's property, not the author's. The fact that any
browser allows an author to remove or change the address bar at all is
pure arrogance. Keep your hands off of my browser! Your domain is the
contents of the window, not the window itself. That's mine.

 

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.javascript message <[email protected].
home.nl>, Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:21:30, OmegaJunior <omegajunior@spamremove
..omegajunior.net> posted:

Changing the text in the address bar is _not done_.

Of course it is. It is part of the expected action on clicking a normal
hyperlink, or assigning to location.href. Obviously Jim (?) momentarily
forget that subtlety is wasted in News.

 

[OmegaJunior]

OmegaJunior said the following on 3/11/2007 12:21 PM:

Sure it is, every time you navigate it changes. And yes, I can change
the text in the address bar with javascript. Make you a simple test page
with a simple script:

function changeTheAddressBarText()
{
window.location.href = "http://www.google.com"
}
window.setTimeout(changeTheAddressBarText,3000)

Watch your address bar and then come back and let me know it didn't
change via scripting.


It's the way of the web. Links change the user's computer too, you want
to get rid of them also?


Nobody said any different.


Pure utter nonsense. See above and get back to us on it.


Nobody put hands on your browser.


As long as the "window" doesn't include the text in the address bar.......

No. The address bar contents are changed by the user and by the browser....
and I expect no less. That address bar is owned by the browser so it can
pretty much do with it what it wants. And that browser is owned by me, so
if it doesn't do what I want I'll go with the competition. Plenty of
browsers out there. If need be I'll whip up my own.

The web page author _can_ change the contents of the address bar, but they
_shouldn't_. Don't presume that you should just because you can. That too,
is arrogance. Why? Because that address bar contains crucial information
which allows me to identify a resource. It shows me who you are, so I know
or can find out whether I can trust you or not.

If the web author chooses to obfuscate that identification, that trust is
lost. If I suspect you're tampering with my address bar, you will loose me
as a customer. Bye bye, I'll spend my money over at your competition, who
don't cheat.

 

[OmegaJunior]

In comp.lang.javascript message <[email protected].
home.nl>, Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:21:30, OmegaJunior <omegajunior@spamremove
.omegajunior.net> posted:

Of course it is. It is part of the expected action on clicking a normal
hyperlink, or assigning to location.href. Obviously Jim (?) momentarily
forget that subtlety is wasted in News.

Dude. I was talking about a web author changing the address. That's what
the FAQ is addressing as well. We all know that the _browser_ can change
its own address bar. Don't change topics on me now.