Help Needed with Redirect

@ip81May 30.2005

Hi there,

I have a delayed redirect script on my page but it’s not working. I copied it from a1javascripts.com and have also tried one from another free java scripts site.

Neither of them work…

Is there any reason somebody may know of why the redirect is not working or can somebody type me out a delayed redirect script that will automatically redirect a user to another page after about 10 seconds.

Thanks,

Chris

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@CharlesMay 30.2005 — #<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="10;URL=http://www.foo-bar.com/">

@UltimaterMay 30.2005 — #

<i>
 </i>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
 setTimeout(redir,10000)
 function redir(){
 location.href="http://webdesign.about.com/"
 }
 &lt;/script&gt;
 &lt;noscript&gt;
 &lt;meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=http://webdesign.about.com/"&gt; 
 If you aren't automaticly redirrected in 10 seconds, &lt;a href="http://webdesign.about.com/&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;
 &lt;/noscript&gt;

@CharlesMay 30.2005 — #From the [url=http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/dtd.html]HTML 4.01 DTD[/url]:

&lt;!ENTITY % head.content "TITLE &amp; BASE?"&gt;
 ...
 &lt;!ENTITY % head.misc "SCRIPT|STYLE|META|LINK|OBJECT" -- repeatable head elements --&gt;
 ...
 &lt;!ELEMENT HEAD O O (%head.content;) +(%head.misc;) -- document head --&gt;

Which is to say, the NOSCRIPT element cannot appear in the document's HEAD.

@UltimaterMay 30.2005 — #Hmm.. you're right. This shouldn't have redirrected me with JS enabled:

<i>
 </i>&lt;noscript&gt;
 &lt;meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=http://webdesign.about.com/"&gt; 
 If you aren't automaticly redirrected in 10 seconds, &lt;a href="http://webdesign.about.com/&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;
 &lt;/noscript&gt;

However, the text didn't show for it got blocked correctly by the NOSCRIPT tag.

So I guess the NOSCRIPT tag cannot block the META tag ?

@UltimaterMay 30.2005 — #Well, we could always do this:

<i>
 </i>&lt;head&gt;
 &lt;meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=http://webdesign.about.com/"&gt; 
 &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
 setTimeout(redir,10000)
 function redir(){
 location.href="http://webdesign.about.com/"
 }
 &lt;/script&gt;
 &lt;/head&gt;
 &lt;body&gt;
 If you aren't automaticly redirrected in 10 seconds, &lt;a href="http://webdesign.about.com/"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;
 &lt;/body&gt;

@CharlesMay 30.2005 — #From the HTML 4.01 DTD:<!ELEMENT BODY O O (%block;|SCRIPT)+ +(INS|DEL) -- document body -->Which is to say that the BODY element cannot directly contain inline elements or PCDATA. You need something more like

&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt;
 &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"&gt;
 &lt;meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=http://webdesign.about.com/"&gt; 
 &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
 setTimeout(redir,10000)
 function redir(){
 location.href="http://webdesign.about.com/"
 }
 &lt;/script&gt;
 &lt;title&gt;Example&lt;/title&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;If you aren't automaticly redirrected in 10 seconds, &lt;a href="http://webdesign.about.com/"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

@UltimaterMay 30.2005 — #Doesn't that lack a HTML and HEAD tag?

@CharlesMay 30.2005 — #From the HTML 4.01 DTD:

&lt;!ELEMENT HTML O O (%html.content;)    -- document root element --&gt;
 ...
 &lt;!ELEMENT HEAD O O (%head.content;) +(%head.misc;) -- document head --&gt;
 ...
 &lt;!ELEMENT BODY O O (%block;|SCRIPT)+ +(INS|DEL) -- document body --&gt;

Which is to say that the HTML, HEAD and BODY start and end tags are all optional. It's the two Os after the element name that does it.

I suggest you read http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ .

@UltimaterMay 30.2005 — #Oh, so two Os means that the start and end tag are optional.

Then I'd assume that one O means that the end tag is optional.

*skims through a bit*

[url=http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#edef-APPLET]What! The APPLET tag is deprecated (with all its attributes) in favor of OBJECT![/url]

Geez...

@UltimaterMay 30.2005 — #Does this mean you can get Java code to tun in the OBJECT tag? Idk that. *drops mouth*

@CharlesMay 30.2005 — #Does this mean you can get Java code to tun in the OBJECT tag? Idk that. *drops mouth*[/QUOTE]No, it means that you're supposed to be able to use it for applets, images and inline frames. But we have to take into account MSIE. If they would only ignore the element then we could use it thusly:<object data="thing-logo.png" type="image/png">Thing Corp</object>But the creatons in Redland saw fit to recognize the element and make it not work.

And note what the DTD has to say about the P element:<!ELEMENT P - O (%inline;)* -- paragraph -->The dash means that the start tag is required.

@UltimaterMay 30.2005 — #No, it means that you're supposed to be able to use it for applets, images and inline frames. But we have to take into account MSIE. If they would only ignore the element then we could use it thusly:<object data="thing-logo.png" type="image/png">Thing Corp</object>[/QUOTE]
I don't understand. Does this mean that Java will be halted all-together?

How can the APPLET tag be deprecated in favor of the OBJECT tag?

APPLETs are used to run Java Code. Can an OBJECT tag do that?

How can you compair the two?

If they were to erase the APPLET tag in later browsers in favor of the OBJECT tag (maybe in 10 years or so), and I write-up some Java code and wish to run it in an APPLET, which would be no longer supported, how would you go about this?

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