@BenDMyers The other way would be to create an invisible <a> element that appeared under your cursor whenever the mouse has entered a parent element. You would hide the <a> using visibility:hidden;
@BenDMyers You could fake what you’re talking about by creating your own element to display the URL preview on hover and place it in the bottom right corner of the browser. Similar to creating fake scroll bars out of DOM elements.
@BenDMyers A long time ago you could modify window.status via JavaScript to make it say whatever you wanted. w3schools.com/jsref/prop_win_sta…
I don’t think there was anything practical to allowing that and it was abused for nefarious purposes. Now all of the major browsers have deprecated it.