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undyingkingInteresting article on Smashing Magazine about
It's not universally supported, but one of the comments says "this is supported by Firefox 3.5 up, IE8 up, Safari 4, and Chrome 4 up" – which would cover almost all of our users.
Another comment points out that you can do the same thing in Flash. Yes, but probably more users have Flash blocked than have JS blocked?
localStorage. In summary, it's a JavaScript object that provides an improved alternative to cookies, for storing data on the user's computer. Looks extremely usable and powerful, but also there has to be a certain yikes! factor I think, about the way it can be used to get round users' cookie-storage privacy preferences.It's not universally supported, but one of the comments says "this is supported by Firefox 3.5 up, IE8 up, Safari 4, and Chrome 4 up" – which would cover almost all of our users.
Another comment points out that you can do the same thing in Flash. Yes, but probably more users have Flash blocked than have JS blocked?
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Re: Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc
Date: 2010-10-12 02:17 pm (UTC)I guess it suits young energetic people who can move quickly on from their mistakes.
Re: Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc
Date: 2010-10-12 02:26 pm (UTC)I remember a fine quote on some mailing list / forum thing someone said
'I like Ruby on Rails but I'm concerned about its maintainability', to which someone replied 'I've been using it since November and the maintainability's fine' (in about February).
Ah, bless.
Re: Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc
Date: 2010-10-12 02:35 pm (UTC)