[thelist] meta refresh or document.location.href

[Diane Soini]

Disregarding any issues of whether or not javascript is enabled, 
(assume that it is) which is more reliable a method of redirecting a 
page:
<meta http-equiv="refresh"...
or
onload="document.location.href=...

Does it make a difference if the documents are on the file system 
rather than on a server?

Reason I ask is that I like using the meta tag, but people always say 
to include a link just in case. I don't know under what circumstances 
the meta tag doesn't work. I do not want to include a link because it 
would show a split second before redirection.

Diane

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