- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 13:24:38 +1000 (AEST)
- To: WAI Markup Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
During the past few months, I have noticed that some HTML documents include a non-standard feature whereby a new page will be automatically loaded after a predetermined period of time has elapsed. I can not remember what the non-standard markup is which gives rise to this phenomenon, but I am sure that other members of the GL working group would be familiar with it. The guidelines should discourage authors from using this feature, not only because it is, presumably, a proprietary HTML extension, but more importantly, in recognition of the observation that readers who are using screen access technology or for whom navigation is difficult may not have time to familiarise themselves with the initial page before the prescribed time period expires. Incidentally, Lynx 2.8 treats this construct as though it were an ordinary link and does not load the new page automatically, regardless of the timing which the author has specified. Perhaps this issue should also be brought to the attention of the user agent guidelines group.
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