Re: lynx-dev Problem with parameters sent in Lynx

[David Woolley]

> As I understand it, using Refresh 0 is bad,

That's because it is used to simulate a redirect when there is a perfectly
good way of doing this which is blessed by the standards and can let the 
browser know that it should update bookmarks (even if it doesn't).  Refresh,
although mentioned in the HTML specification is not specified there, and
is, as far as I know, not specified in any other non-proprietory specification.

>                                             but I suppose using 1 and above

You are still abusing it for a redirect, and even when using it for its 
intended purpose of producing a slide show, in which case 1 second is too
short (it's actually too short to allow some people to get past it with
the back button).  However, for anyone not fluent in a language or not reading
visually, any auto-advance time delay suitable for fluent visual users is
likely to be a problem.

Lynx is often used by blind users without a rich employer to pay for
JAWS.

> instead of 0 isn't bad, so at least for those I would be happy if Lynx would
> automatically redirect. Or is that a problem for some reason?
> 
> The only thing I use it for is, if I want an easy way to tell a browser not to
> use this or that static file, but instead some other file, that is very often 
> a
> dynamically generated file. And very often it is mostly because I like to 
> start

If you can generate dynamic content, you are almost certainly able to configure
the server to generate proper redirects; there is a slight excuse for this
abuse of Refresh for people with cheap web space where they cannot control
meta data, but you can control meta data with dynamic content, so that 
restriction shouldn't apply.


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