Aparajita Fishman wrote:
This is a cool technique. One minor caveat. It will not work on older browsers that don't support CSS.
Unless someone threatens your life or your livelihood, browsers that old (and we are talking VERY old) are NOT worth supporting. I enforce a minimum of Win IE 5 on my client's sites, and they have yet to have any major complaints. On the Mac side I won't even support IE 5, as it is an end-of-life, unsupported product. If a user tries to use my site with it, I explain that fact and give them a list of free, better alternatives. Again, no one complains.
I will not kill myself or cripple my sites for people who are too lazy to upgrade their browser once every four or five years! Of course, if your target audience is a government bureaucracy, you may have no choice.
Aparjita,
I only pointed this out because his original question centered on the compatibility of using the meta refresh tag or javascript to force page refreshes. I assumed he was interested in where techniques might not work?
I totally agree with you on the browser support issue. As someone who's target audience is "a government bureaucracy" I spent many years "killing myself and crippling my sites" because all browsers were supported and many institutions standardized on, and stuck with, Netscape 4.x., which supported many CSS features poorly (I don't recall if the visibility feature was one of them).
Thankfully, our progam sponsor changed this policy in the past few years and using modern browsers is now recommended and in many places enforced.
best,
Brad
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