Question

I have the following JavaScript which redirects the user to another website (Google in this case):

<script type="text/JavaScript">
window.setTimeout("location=('http://www.google.com');",5000);
</script>

However, although I want the website to redirect to another website, I don’t want it to redirect for no reason. My aim is for the website to redirect automatically on the condition that the cursor hasn’t been moved for a little while.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

Something like this should work, although on older MSIE you’d need to use their equivalent of addEventListener()

var timer = null;

function goAway() {
    clearTimeout(timer);
    timer = setTimeout(function() {
        window.location = 'http://www.google.com/';
    }, 5000);
}

window.addEventListener('mousemove', goAway, true);

goAway();  // start the first timer off

​All it does is ensure that every time the mouse is moved the timer is cleared, and then started up again.

Demo at http://jsfiddle.net/alnitak/sXwHY/, although cross frame security stops it working correctly there.