[vkou]

> Steve didn’t like the status bar and didn’t see the need for it. “Who looks at URLs when you hover your mouse over a link?” He thought it was just too geeky.

People who don't want to be phished? People who don't have absolute trust that a hyperlink posted by some random schmuck on the internet won't take them somewhere they shouldn't go?

This sort of background mentality of "Make the happy path look slick, and if the happy path doesn't work for you, good luck," has always turned me off from Apple stuff. But, of course, I'm not the target audience.

[tcgv]

You can't rely on the hyperlink url, it's easily manipulable from JavaScript:

https://jsfiddle.net/aeoktwL7/

[atonse]

Yes because it is still true, that more geeky users that care about URLs and the status bar.

Sure, nobody wants to get phished. But I don't know any non-tech users that pay attention to the status bar as a way to avoid it.

[olliej]

The status bar has never been a anti-phishing tech, and I would argue that if anything it aids phishing[1]. The thing that prevents phishing is the location bar.

Also at that point in history phishing via fake urls was less of a problem - you could still trivially give the page a title (users only looked at the window title bar), and a copy of the verisign or thawte “secure page” graphic and you’d be set.

[1] pretty much from day 1 of js existing IE allowed js control of the content of the status bar, click handlers on links can change the window location directly, etc. Even today the link for urls is still frequently javascript:... so what adding a status bar does do is add another thing that tells the user what a link is, leading to a false sense of trust a importantly a sense of trust that can lead to not paying attention to the one true thing in the window: the location bar.

[bluedino]

One thing I miss when using Safari instead of Chrome

[olliej]

The article literally states that they convinced him to have a toggle...

[jimbobjim]

There’s a toggle for it in one of the menus, the status bar shows when you hover over a link.

[hashbig]

view > show status bar

[saagarjha]

You're looking for ⌘+/.