https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48028

--- Comment #10 from Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> Users with JavaScript enabled can
> get the old link on the top. It's a rare use case anyway. I don't think it's
> a
> problem to make the "redirected from" hint a JavaScript feature as long as
> it's
> not the only way.

Also on this whole notion of using JavaScript... how?

I haven't seen a single suggestion of how redirected from could be implemented
in JavaScript in a way that wasn't unacceptably unstable creating a regression
in the feature.

- Cookies are not isolated to the tab so they leak in unacceptable ways to
other pages creating bogus "redirected from" links.
- sessionStorage only works if navigation was done by a link, search, etc...
on-wiki and breaks the feature for incoming external links, interwiki links,
direct navigation, and on-wiki links created by features not integrated into
the sessionStorage handling.
- Intermediate meta and javascript redirects create history bugs and naturally
are not 301 redirects.

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