Meta Refresh for No Javascript message

[LawrenceNeal]

We're currently using meta refresh tag to check if  JavaScript is enabled or not in users browsers. And if not then we redirect them to jsnotfound.aspx page:

<metahttp-equiv="refresh"content="0;url= default.aspx?jse="0"/"></metahttp-equiv="refresh"content="0;url=>

It's being flagged in SEOmoz tools so our developer tried solution  highlighted in this Question:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/meta-refresh-nojavascript-url

...but he couldn't get it to work.

Is it really imperative we don't use the meta refresh for this purpose?

Thanks in advance.

Michael

[OrionGroup]

First, a question for you. Why are you checking if javascript is enabled?

Scott O.

[ChiarynMiranda]

Hey Lawrence,

I checked a few of the pages that are listed as having a meta refresh on the Australia version of the site and it looks like the meta refreshes have been removed in the source code, but the last crawl was on the 14th for that site, so you would just need to wait for the next crawl to come through sometime today to see those changes reflected in the crawl. The same goes for the US and New Zealand version of the site. All three crawls will be updated within the next couple of days, so you should see those meta refresh errors drop off for those campaigns after the new crawls complete, as they did for your other three campaigns in their recent crawls.

Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.

-Chiaryn

[LawrenceNeal]

Thanks, Chiaryn.

That's news to me that changes had been rolled out (last I heard they were on staging and not working - great interdepartmental communication!)

Lawrence

[LawrenceNeal]

I infer from what your saying that the amount of people with javascript disabled in 2013 is probably less than negligible. This is a very good point. Looks like we're perhaps trying to fix the engine of a car we should have got rid of a while aqo...!