2. No statusbar. Bersirc has a status bar and only repeats information that is already on the screen which is a pointless exercise to me.
Like I said in my original post, there would be an option to disable the status bar from appearing. As codemastr said, you wouldn't even know it was there.
Back to mIRC though, unless the starter of the thread could explain what the status bar can display that is not already displayed somewhere then I wouldn't be all that fussed over whether it is included or not.
I already explained what it would display. Read my second post.
<example>
If the active window is the Status Window, the status bar might display something like:
Status Window - Not Connected
or
Status Window - Buffalo.NY.US.ZUH.Net 6667 - +i
* Custom Status Bar
on *:START:{
statusbar -s Welcome to mIRC!
}
Note: The -s switch means Status Window
</example>
Again, those are just three examples. You could have it display anything you wish with commands and identifiers.