I have just loaded FF2 and found the switch to turn on the status line messages. However as it is a user choice, and it is not that important to users often, they probably don't switch it on. So if those messages are useful I must find another way to display a simple date message. I am tinkering and found a method that is working, but like any change it needs to work with existing stuff and that is a longer project.

the techy bit is - style sheets, I have to unify a lot of them instead of the ad hoc methods I employed.

The whole ethos with the status line was that if it failed the site was unaffected. So in that respect it was a good decision. But things have changed since I devised the wheeze. And there are those who still use old browsers so I need to test on several machines. One of the reasons my site is relatively mundane, data are King. Fashion can wait.