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Posted by Kimmo Laine on 09/03/05 19:29
"Toby Inkster" <usenet200508@tobyinkster.co.uk> kirjoitti
viestissδ:9aoou2-qtu.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk...
> Kimmo Laine wrote:
>
>> Invalid how? Please explain, I see nothing wrong in that.
>> Missing some attributes? Okay, alt is required... Anything else?
>
> After you realised that "alt" is required, why didn't you go back and
> delete the preceding line?
Well I didn't think you were actually that anal...
> Yes, that is how it was invalid.
Okay. Splitting hair is fun.
>> Also, you forgot to mention that this is ignored by people who have
>> images turned of.
>
> I didn't forget. I thought about it, but decided against mentioning it as
> the number of such people is rather low, compared with the number of
> people with no Javascript.
>
>> Which is altogether why I encouraged to use iframe...
>
> If we're going to continue the "some browsers don't support that" and
> "other browsers do support it but allow it to be disabled" line of
> reasoning, that ain't ideal either, but it's the best of the three.
>
> Probably the best solution would be to simply redirect to the PHP page in
> question. The preferred method of doing this would be to send an
> appropriate HTTP 3xx response, but given the problem at hand, I think
> this would not be viable on this entirely static server.
>
> So I'd suggest a timed (about 5 to 10 seconds) <meta> refresh; combined
> with a Javascript redirect for the odd esoteric browser that doesn't
> support that particular non-standard, but widely supported HTTP extension;
> and finished off with a "you will be redirected in a few seconds, but if
> it doesn't work, please manually follow this link to my <a
> href='foo'>dynamic server</a>" message for good measure.
Yah. That would be the ultimate solution, other than switching to a less
crappy server. (which has been recommended also)
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Kimmo Laine <eternal.erectionN0@5P4Mgmail.com>
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