[PATCH] disallow hiding of statusbar
George Staikos
staikos at kde.org
Fri Jul 29 16:46:28 BST 2005
On Friday 29 July 2005 10:04, Leo Savernik wrote:
> Am Freitag, 29. Juli 2005 09:31 schrieb Andreas Kling:
> > On Friday 29 July 2005 00:38, George Staikos wrote:
> > > For security purposes, I don't think it's safe to allow websites to
> > > hide all UI elements of the browser window.
> >
> > Perhaps not, but I really think we should go the Firefox way here and add
> > an option to the "Global JavaScript Policies" to allow/disallow hiding of
> > the status bar instead of disabling it completely.
>
> And I may add that toggling the status bar should still be possible from
> the GUI/KConfig, only restricted for Websites. Otherwise, one cannot have a
> full-screen HTML display (think presentations).
Ah yes, I actually had thought about this but forgot to address it. As long
as the user has to trigger it, it should be fine.
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George Staikos
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