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including Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Opera.
Auto-redirects via markup (versus server-side redirects) are not in compliance with the W3C's - Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 (guideline 7.5).[21]HTTP message headers
Meta elements of the form <meta http-equiv="foo" content="bar"> can be used as alternatives to
http headers. For example, <meta http-equiv="expires" content="Wed, 21 June 2006
14:25:27 GMT"> would tell the browser that the page "expires" on June 21, 2006 at 14:25:27 GMT and that it
may safely cache the page until then.Alternative to meta elements
An alternative to meta elements for enhanced subject access within a website is the use of a back-of-book-style
index for the website. See the American Society of Indexers [22] website for an example.
In 1994, ALIWEB, also used an index file to provide the type of information commonly found in meta keywords
attributes.References
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