onMouseover in Firefox

[pocketkangaroo]

Well I've been using onMouseover to hide affiliate links for some time and just realized that it doesn't work in Firefox. Is there any way to get the same results in Firefox that you do with IE?

I've been using this:

a href="http://www.site.com/affiliateurl" onmouseover=" window.status='http://www.site.com'; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" target="_blank"

[Tom_PM]

I think the "title" tag works in firefox

[pocketkangaroo]

For a link? What code works for you?

[Tom_PM]

Hm, I'm looking into it. This is evidently configured in firefox default setup to Off in advanced:javascript.

The title is only a tooltip, so I agree it's no real substitute.

[Tom_PM]

Alternatively, what you COULD do, is make the href show the text you want the window.status to show, and use javascript onClick to actually go somewhere else, lol

[digifan]

This works in firefox: http://www.stunningsnatches.com/ :D

[Tom_PM]

It just says "Done" for me in the status bar in firefox onmouseover, digifan.

[digifan]

It is using the title tags for me and I have java on.. 98% of my surfers have java checked.

[digifan]

If you check the field "warn me when websites try to install extensions etc" together with "block popup windows" in the content prefs you are quite safe I think.

[Tom_PM]

Oh yeah, the tool tip text shows up

This is a sneaky way to show firefox (and ie) users one url and send them to another. Seems a long way to go for a small percent of users though:

<a href="http://www.site.com/" onClick="window.open('http://www.site.com/affiliateurl')">site</a>

[digifan]

Oh yeah, the tool tip text shows up

This is a sneaky way to show firefox (and ie) users one url and send them to another. Seems a long way to go for a small percent of users though:

<a href="http://www.site.com/" onClick="window.open('http://www.site.com/affiliateurl')">site</a>

Some people prefer this as a way to send surfers to the site they are promoting "seemingly" without the ref code and not to another site, that way they would lose the trust of their surfers quick.
When reviewing all you have to do is setting up another profile for firefox and let the popup and all nasty stuff checked.

[Tom_PM]

I personally dont use mouseovers unless it's on a whole page. (which if I was doing tgp's or free sites would be declined since it's in a script tag)
If I really want to hide my code and submit, I set up a php header:location jump page and link to that. Seems to be generally acceptable provided of course that it links to the advertised site. Plus I can track outgoing clicks that way.

Doing a simple mouseover and mouseout code on each link makes the code:real content ratio pretty poor, and I think se's and other bots like to see more content than code

I really think that in general, mouseover codes have become ingrained so much that a lot of people simply do them because they've always done them so they'll always do them, lol. Firefox has evidently decided that the window status bar has become more irrelevant than relevant, so they've disabled allowing it to be changed by default.

[digifan]

I love firefox