[Catalyst] "You have been automatically logged out."

[Chris Carline]

On 2/21/07, J. Shirley <jshirley at gmail.com> wrote:
> The meta refresh is a good idea, although I avoid it because an
> inadvertent escape cancels the timeout in some browsers (Firefox being
> one).  This means if the user hits escape for whatever reason, the
> feature is just disabled without warning; with a javascript method it
> tends to be more consistent for the user.

Good point!

I like Javascript, but I don't like relying on it -- as with many of
these things, there are plenty of ways to do things, none of them
ideal. :-)

I think as long as an opportunity to log back in and continue with
whatever it was you were doing (in the case of the 'you have been
logged out' screen not being displayed for whatever reason) combined
with one of the approaches above covers most situations though.