Tim Starling wrote: >Personally, I think the refresh is annoying, since it makes it much >more difficult to correct typos in manually-typed URLs. If you >actually meant to type some non-article URL like a CSS resource, and >make a typo which causes it to hit the refresh, the URL you typed is >erased from your browser's address bar and history, making correction >of the typo much more difficult. Maybe we should just include a link >to the search page, rather than redirect or refresh.
Mark Ryan redesigned the 404 page in 2009 and specifically removed the meta refresh tag (cf. <https://bugs.wikimedia.org/17316#c0>). The redesigned page eventually got deployed, but the client-side refresh very sneakily moved from the HTML output to a Refresh header (cf. <https://bugs.wikimedia.org/35052#c0>). Neither bug is resolved, if anyone is interested in helping out. :-) MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
