[thelist] What is the Best Practice for Single Page Redirects?

Drew Shiel ashiel at sportsinteraction.com
Fri Jul 11 10:00:42 CDT 2003


At 14:08 10/07/2003 -0700, Jeff Howden wrote:
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> > From: Aredridel
> >
> > > that depends on the timeout you have set.  if it's 0,
> > > they won't even see the redirect.
> >
> > Except as the flash of content before the browser
> > figures it out.
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>the browser "figures it out" when it encounters the <meta> tag in the
>source.  if it's up in the head of the document where it belongs the
>redirect should be transparent to the user.

   Been wondering about this myself. If there's a large amount of content 
to a page, the browser (IE 6.0 in this case) seems to take a few seconds to 
"notice" the meta refresh and head off to the new URL. Removing all content 
from the page makes it refresh transparently - or so I found. This wasn't a 
huge issue, but it did seem odd.

   Drew.


Drew Shiel, Web Development, Sports Interaction
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http://www.sportsinteraction.com/
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