In a post last year I mentioned that there seemed to be an issue with IE 7 processing <META http-equiv="REFRESH"> html tag. And there seemed to have been many people with similar problems.

Recently however, I found out that IE 7 does have the ability to process this tag (see screen shot below). The setting to allow META REFRESH is turned off by default in IE7 for some reason, which resulted in many website compatibility issues.

I am not sure if this option was there all along or not, but clearly it was not easy to spot it at the first place. Anyway, I am still not quite sure why this feature is turned off by default. It doesn’t seem that this setting significantly enhances the security of the browser but it does seem that it has caused quite some annoyance for the end users.

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