-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 26 November 2002 04:27 pm, Jim Martinez wrote: > I wonder if your thinking of the meta tag refresh : > > <META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh > CONTENT="45;URL=http://mydomain.com/tracking.pl> > Is this a good idea? I hope so, because I'm using it.
One problem with meta-refresh is that it breaks the browser back button. After the refresh occurs and the new page is displayed, if the user hits the back button they wind up back at the meta-refresh page. This can be confusing for users, especially with a short delay. (can be fun on April fools day, though) Just read something about this on the web today, a couple days after using it myself. ... 30 minutes later, after firing up ircd, going to the basement machine where I read the article, and pasting the link into an irc client to retrieve up here... here is the first link in a series on this topic: http://www.w3.org/2001/06tips/reback Mike - -- "Learn as if you will live forever, Live as if you will die tomorrow" Gandhi http://www.bartley20.net Key servers: http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/pgp/extract.html 228E3CDB 2002/05/24 Mike Williams (no comment) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = F138 E5A8 F784 7F15 492C 8F9A B2EE E3EB 228E 3CDB -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE95AwMsu7j6yKOPNsRAhqiAKCqa2TQogtEhQwJ4psDf4NtwxZJFgCfRZbk KDb8egtBLqw+Neijxp2S0QA= =t+cf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
