Will Google penalize us for this?

Using JavaScript to submit the form...

[paladin]

Hi,
I have, what I hope will be, a quick question for the experts here. I am working on a relatively small e-commerce site (aprox. 50 products with a total of about 70 pages). I have been trying to make the site both user friendly and SE friendly.

The problem I got stuck with is that I needed to have a JavaScript "redirect" from the shopping cart page to the checkout page. Now I do not mind that Google and other search engines will not visit the checkout page, however I wanted to hear your opinions if you think I will get penalized for the "redirect".

The way the site works is that it has a cart page (www.mydomain.com/cart.asp) with links to it. In addition there are links to www.mydomain.com/cart.asp?action=checkout, now when the page sees the checkout action it to uses JavaScript to submit the shopping cart form (the form's action is to checkout.asp) .

Thanks.

[IanTurner]

I have not seen Google penalise for javascript form submissions where the intention is to improve functionality.