Though I don't normally recommend modifying the browser's default behaviors, changing the window's status bar does have its place. The window status bar can pass descriptive information about the element the user is hovering over or can hide the URL from users that don't understand source code enough to figure it out for themselves.
window.status = 'Hello! You are hovering over me.';
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Thanks, but it wont work in IE7… Just IE6..
Thank you for mentioning this Selim. It looks as though IE7 has disabled this functionality.
Yes, unfortunately custom status messagges are removed from ie7. I have searched it for a month ago :)
thank you, i really appreciate all your tuts