Using Javascript to override or disable meta refresh tag

Question

I have a website, where I am trying to use Ajax to update some stuff on the page without reloading it. However, there is a good chance that many of my users will be using mo

Answer 1

Meta tags are awful in this case. What about search engines??

What you should do is to make it something like I've outlined here. Your links should point to full working sites as if it were a web 2.0 page. Then with event handlers (onclick) you enhance the user experience by using ajax.

So ajax users will not go to links, the link is rather processed when clicked and sent an ajax request to the exact same url but with an ajax GET parameter.

Now on the server side you have to be able to generate the whole site by some method. If it is an ajax request you send the related content. If it is not an ajax request, yo generate the full site with the related part embedded.

Your site will be SEO friendly, available to mobile users, and progressively enhanced for people on modern browsers and platforms. Finally ajax generated hash links will be usable, even as links.

Awesomeness. :)