Tuesday, May 10, 2005 Hi Aparajita,
> It is a part of the HTML standard...which means Microsoft browsers > don't always work as expected. :-) > Do a web search for this meta-tag and you will find out what quirks > the various browsers have. But you should not hesitate to use it. Thanks for your advice and your "seal of approval"! Digging around on the web, I found a great site discussing "server push" and "client pull": http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/pushpull.html One important tip: if you use the META refresh tag, you *must* use a fully qualified URL in the redirection, not a relative one. Also, the following site: http://www.cryer.co.uk/resources/javascript/script5.htm discusses both methods (META tag versus JavaScript), and says the following: > Which style of redirect you choose to use is up to you. There is no reason why > these two approaches could not both be used on the same page. This would have > the advantage that whilst some browsers might have JavaScript disabled and > others might not respond to the HTTP-EQUIV tag, it is most likely that one or > the other approach will be successful. So maybe putting both methods in on the page should do the trick. Again, it's important the redirect takes place (one way or the other), as the user would be left high and dry without it (staring at a "please wait" screen indefinitely). Now to go test it on other browsers/platforms... Cheers! Michael Larue _______________________________________________ Active4D-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/
