From 6afb792b7703e4dc601b65b39b8c3382ac26c656 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Reimar <mail@reim.ar>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2023 18:16:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Initial commit

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 example.html     | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 window-status.js | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 example.html
 create mode 100644 window-status.js

diff --git a/example.html b/example.html
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+++ b/example.html
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+<ul>
+	<li>
+		<a href="https://google.com">This is a link</a>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		<a href="https://duckduckgo.com">This is another link</a>
+	</li>
+</ul>
+
+<script src="window-status.js"></script>
+<script>
+	var i = 0;
+
+	// Switch between "hello" and "Hello there :)" every 2 seconds - user must hover over a link and back for it to update
+	function update() {
+		if (i++ % 2 == 0) window.status = "hello";
+		else window.status = "Hello there :)";
+	}
+
+	update();
+	setInterval(update, 2000);
+</script>
+
diff --git a/window-status.js b/window-status.js
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+++ b/window-status.js
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+var statusLink = document.createElement("a");
+with (statusLink) {
+	style.position = "fixed";
+	style.top = "0";
+	style.bottom = "0";
+	style.left = "0";
+	style.right = "0";
+	style.cursor = "inherit";
+	style.zIndex = "-100";
+
+	onclick = ondragstart = function(e) {
+		e.preventDefault();
+		return false;
+	};
+}
+
+window.addEventListener("load", function() {
+	document.body.appendChild(statusLink);
+});
+
+window.__defineSetter__("status", function(value) {
+	// If value contains uppercase or special characters, it needs to be specified as the path in the URL or it won't show
+	if (value.match(/^[a-z]+$/))
+		statusLink.href = "http://" + value;
+	else
+		statusLink.href = "http://./ " + value;
+});