- From: E. Stephen Mack <estephen@emf.net>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 01:57:03 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
I was surprised to note (in 4.0's global.html
specification) that the syntax for meta refresh has
changed:
<META name="refresh" content="3,http://www.acme.com/intro.html">
This syntax is not understood by IE (I tested with Win95 3.02 and
4.0 pp1) nor Navigator (Win95 3.01 and 4.01).
The understood form by these browsers is:
<META http-equiv="refresh"
content="3; URL=http://www.acme.com/intro.html">
Although RFC 2068 doesn't allow "refresh" as a valid
HTTP header, many existing pages and browsers use the
latter syntax and not the former. Is it HTML 4.0's
intention to force a change in the way refresh is
specified? If so, perhaps a note regarding the
deprecated/obsoleted syntax for refresh would be useful.
--
E. Stephen Mack <estephen@emf.net> http://www.emf.net/~estephen/
Received on Tuesday, 15 July 1997 04:56:00 UTC