[Netsurf-develop] Meta refresh tags

[John W. <li...@pi...>]

In article <4ed...@ti...>, Tim Hill <ti...@ti...> wrote:

> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=docs/index.htm">

> Is the form used in your example <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;">
> valid?

It was valid enough to work up until 1st April - and it's not my coding but
the IPCop development team's.

I'm assuming it is, or that, if it isn't strictly valid, an accommodation
was made to allow it which has now been removed.

Something changed with that 1st April version which stopped it working
AFAICS.

But, putting it as a file through the W£C validator does throw it up as an
error, so perhaps I should raise it on the IPCop list as well.

Hang on! My test page throws up the error, but suggests a close within the
tag might be missing!

OK:

        http://petit.four.free.fr/refresh_test.htm

gives the error, but

        http://petit.four.free.fr/refresh_test2.htm

with the close within the tag passes! That is:

        <meta http-equiv='refresh' content='30;' />     

/is/ valid XHTML!
        

So there is an error in the XHTML of closing the tag, but NetSurf's
handling of close tags has also been tightened up, stopping the existing
code from working.

How's that for a theory?

John

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