A couple of JS issues

Hello Javascripters,

     I have a small dilemma and a question of curiosity to ask.

As to my dilemma, I have a function to change the browser status bar which 
works wonderfully in IE, Netscrap, on the other hand, acts like it is 
completely ignoring the function all together.  Instead of displaying the 
text I want, it displays the URL to which the links point.  I have two sets 
of pages, so I can rewrite the script to accomidate NN.  The script is 
currently located in a separate js file.

Here's the script:

function StatusMsg(msgStr)
{
  window.status = msgStr;
  document.returnValue = true;
}

And here is an example of how it is called:

<.A HREF="board.html"
OnMouseOver="reveal('Board'); document.pawnA.src= pawn2.src;
             StatusMsg('The Board'); return document.returnValue;"
OnMouseOut="reveal('Board'); document.pawnA.src= pawn1.src;
            StatusMsg(msg1); return document.returnValue;">

I have it included with other functions: reveal(), shows a dHTML layer, and 
works, the other code, as you can imagine, is for an image swap.  Is there 
something that I need to do to get this to work in NN?  I've noticed that 
sometimes, I have to change the order of the functions to get them to work 
right, but it seems not to work for this particular problem.  Oh, and I use 
a web based browser, so I included the period as not to mess up the server.

Now to my non-pressing curiosity issue.  I was experimenting with moving 
DIVs around in IE and NN, and have the script working right, but I'm 
wondering, if you move a DIV so far can you make it stop with some attribute 
like document.objectname.stop for NN and objectname.style.stop in IE?  I 
tried those but the browser ignored them.  I also tried putting () on the 
end of stop, and while that worked, it pulled up an error.  I guess I have 
to write an actual stop() method, but I'm not sure how to do this.  I'm not 
using this in any pages right now, I'm just playing around, but I would like 
to know how this is done.  Thanks.  BTW, I'm on the digest version of the 
list so a personal response would be nice.

Dack

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