- From: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:18:52 +1000
- To: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#refresh WCAG is very clear that meta@refresh is bad practice. I believe we should deprecate this in HTML5 and provide advice that is aligned with the W3C accessibility initiative, namely: 1. Configure the server to use the appropriate HTTP status code (301). Using HTTP headers is preferable because it reduces Internet traffic and download times, it may be applied to non-HTML documents, and it may be used by agents who requested only a HEAD request (e.g., link checkers). Also, status codes of the 30x type provide information such as "moved permanently" or "moved temporarily" that cannot be given with META refresh. 2. Replace the page that would be redirected with a static page containing a normal link to the new page. http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-CORE-TECHS/#auto-page-refresh
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