At 02:13 PM 2/16/96 +0000, you wrote: >I am a bit of a novice (less than 24 hours) at JavaScript but I am curious >why scripts to write text to the Status bar were many lines long when a >function such as my banner() below will do the trick in 3 lines. > >Am I missing something obvious that means I will be asking for trouble later? > Looks like you have a better algorithm!