- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:55:40 -0000
- To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
> From: Stephane Bailliez [SMTP:stephane.bailliez@imediation.com] > > I have a question concerning the <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" ... > > I can not find any paragraph about the "refresh" in the current HTML 4.01 > specification and according to the mailing list archive, it seems it was > It's been in no version of the HTTP spec that I have ever seen (nor for that matter, in any HTML spec.). I don't think it is possible to deprecate it in HTML without deprecating http_equiv in its entirety. Its problems are: - it tends to break cacheability, as actually implemented; - it forces a pace on a user who may not be able to keep up (accessibility); - probably more than 50% of the time it is misused to simulate an HTTP level redirect (either through lack of knowledge/reliance on folklore, or because the ISP isn't providing meta data access).
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