helo Lars-Einar -
thanks for sending VIEW; I'll check if it unpacks well and set it up at
my www place too, as is.
Re accessility of the original place:
> I think this problem has to do with the newer HTTP 1.1 protocol.
Indeed - and that's a problem: HTTP 1.1 allows for certain new "META"
tags which however, are not defined in HTML (yet - and not even in the
"transitional" HTML_4); and it's only 'certain' browsers which can make
use of these, and it's *only* certain "latest newest" version of
HTML-editors which contain/use it (among them, and perhaps as the only
one, "FrontPage").
> ... It also had "FrontPage". Who manufactures that?
Micro$lob.
That non-Html Http META tag in question is "HTTP-EQUIV=..." and goes
in principle like this:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="1;URL=(SomeOtherURL.htm) l">
It is, in my opinion, sheer bandwidth waste: allows to load useless
"graphical" screenfillups - I saw cases of 8 to nearly 30 KB - in order
*only* to get the next, perphaps and maybe "real" URL (not necessarily
the latter; crap can be nested ad infinitum).
Perhaps the introduction of that tag did not intend it to be used like
that but the commercial techno-terrorists immediately seized upon
and abused it.
(The tiresome work-around is to download the page, display it with an
editor or text viewer, extract a referenced URL and try that one.)
The W3C "Web Accessibility Initiative" (WAI) has been made attent to
this and there's some work going on about it - I hope a "required" ALT
tag for text-rendered reference URLs will come out of that.
Heimo Claasen / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / Brussels 1999-03-29
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