window.status experiment

• I cannot make window.status work (with mouseover in a tag) in my Blogger blogs??? It's on IE7, and this doesn't repro with local html file, thereby, it must be Blogger thing. I also tried on window.top.status, window.parent.status, window.self.status, top.window.status, top.window.top.status, top.window.parent.status, top.window.window.status, top.window.frames.status, top.window.self.status, ... etc.
  • By inline statements Move mouse pointer over here and check status bar.
  • The status bar should show the message: "It is working.", when the mouse pointer is over the above hypertext link. But, it doesn't. Instead, it shows "http://bloggerhours.blogspot.com/" at status bar. Something not right.
  • Code: <a href="" onmousemove="window.status='It is working.'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">Move mouse pointer over here and check status bar.</a>
  • By calling javascript function: Move mouse pointer over here and check status bar.
  • Code
  • javascript: <script type="text/javascript">function setStatus(message) { window.status = message; return true; }</script>
  • HTML part <a href="" onmousemove="return setStatus('It is working.');" onmouseout="return setStatus('');">Move mouse pointer over here and check status bar.</a>
  In Blogger Help Group, I find posts about changing value of window.status, and I don't find that those replies mention anything else beside same kind of codes. Then, probably changing window.status value is working for other people, but me???