Using Snippets

[lloydcodrington]

Hi All,
Could someone please help me use the redirect snippet. I want to redirect
users to a page after a certain amount of time.

Thanks in anticipation,
Lloyd Codrington [url]https://www.bluespotnetwork.com[/url]

[Murray *ACE*]

The redirect snippet? Can you show me what its code is?

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"lloydcodrington" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
> Could someone please help me use the redirect snippet. I want to redirect
> users to a page after a certain amount of time.
>
> Thanks in anticipation,
> Lloyd Codrington [url]https://www.bluespotnetwork.com[/url]
>

[lloydcodrington]

Hi Murray,
The snippet code is attached. Please could you give me an example of how to
use it and how to incorporate a delay.

Thanks,
Lloyd



function browserRedirect()

{

var ns4 = document.layers;

var ns6 = document.getElementById && !document.all;

var ie4 = document.all;



if(ns4) URLStr = "1.html";

else if(ns6) URLStr = "2.html";

else if(ie4) URLStr = "3.html";

else URLStr = "4.html";

location = URLStr;

}

[Murray *ACE*]

That's pretty antique code. And, it's a bad idea, too. Not only are you
doubling, tripling, or quadrupling your effort by redirecting to pages for
specific browsers, but you are breaking the browser's back button by using
it, since if the user sees the redirected page, and clicks on the back
button, they arrive at the redirected page again. A better solution (at
least one that doesn't break the back button) would be to do a server-side
redirect.

But tell me this - what problem are you trying to solve by using that?

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"lloydcodrington" <lloydcodrington@bluespotnetwork.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi Murray,
> The snippet code is attached. Please could you give me an example of how
> to
> use it and how to incorporate a delay.
>
> Thanks,
> Lloyd
>
>
>
> function browserRedirect()
>
> {
>
> var ns4 = document.layers;
>
> var ns6 = document.getElementById && !document.all;
>
> var ie4 = document.all;
>
>
>
> if(ns4) URLStr = "1.html";
>
> else if(ns6) URLStr = "2.html";
>
> else if(ie4) URLStr = "3.html";
>
> else URLStr = "4.html";
>
> location = URLStr;
>
> }
>

[lloydcodrington]

Hi Murry,
What I want to do is as follows:
I have a client and he wants a page on his site that just says hello to his
site's users. He also wants it to then redirect the user to the home page
after 5 - 10 seconds.

The code I sent you earlier was taken directly from the DW8 snippet panel. I
have no idea how it would have acted.

Thanks for the assistance,
Lloyd Codrington

[Murray *ACE*]

<sigh>

Why does your client want this. How will it be for people who have been to
the site already 10 times?

You can do that with the meta refresh tag -

Position your cursor in the head of the page, and use INSERT | HTML > Head
Tags > Meta Refresh, and fill in the blanks.

But you have now broken the back button on the browser (as I described
earlier).

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"lloydcodrington" <lloydcodrington@bluespotnetwork.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi Murry,
> What I want to do is as follows:
> I have a client and he wants a page on his site that just says hello to
> his
> site's users. He also wants it to then redirect the user to the home page
> after 5 - 10 seconds.
>
> The code I sent you earlier was taken directly from the DW8 snippet panel.
> I
> have no idea how it would have acted.
>
> Thanks for the assistance,
> Lloyd Codrington
>

[lloydcodrington]

Murray,
I have no idea why my client wants to make my life a misery. I did mention
that people will not want to see the welcome screen after the first time but as
they say the client is always right. So I get on with it.

Will try your method. Because the back key only goes back to the welcome page
I can't see it having much of an effect.

Thanks,
Lloyd