[Klug-general] MSIE isn't compliant

Tue Mar 16 11:13:26 UTC 2010

I'm sure everyone knows that MSIE isn't standards compliant but it gave 
me a real headache yesterday. My association has moved its website to a 
new server so I wanted to put a redirector html page on the old site so 
as not to lose members and casual viewers.

My HTML 3.2 handbook (yes I know it's old but so am I) gives a nice line 
to go in the <HEAD> section:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"
CONTENT="5; nextpage.html">

That gives a five second delay before switching viewers to 
nextpage.html. Neat, so I implemented it.

It worked with Firefox and Konqueror under Linux. When I switched to my 
WindowsXP under VirtualBox it also worked with Firefox and Google Chrome 
but not MSIE ver 8 which just kept recycling on the first page, failing 
to switch. So clearly MSIE is non-compliant with html 3.2. Other members 
using barefoot windoze complained of the same experience.

Does anyone know the line which will work for all browsers?

Baffled. No change there then.

-- 
MikeR