error in the html 4.0 specification for meta

There is an error in the documentation for the meta tag at
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#edef-META .
You provide an incorrect example of using the http-equiv=redirect attribute
to redirect to a new url. The example, <META http-equiv="refresh"
content="3,http://www.acme.com/intro.html"> , will not redirect, but simply
refreshes the same Location every 3 seconds. The correct syntax for
redirection is:
<META http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.acme.com/intro.html">
The separator is not a comma, but a semicolon. Furthermore, one must
specify url= if the user agent is to load a new url. Please document this
behavior as part of the specification.

Jeremy
Jeremy Weinberger
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jeremy@isp.nwu.edu
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Received on Monday, 1 February 1999 15:39:02 UTC