On 22 September 2011 14:46, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm uncomfortable about a session cookie based
system for IP readers, many
of our readers are in Internet Cafes and I'm not sure if PCs in those sorts
of environments get rebooted and the session cookies wiped between
customers.
It varies depending on the specific location - some effectively reboot
and wipe the profile between users, some merely kick one user out of
the seat and put a new one in without even closing the browser tabs.
Same with domestic one-computer-per-household situations!
On the other hand, the proposed implementation is relatively
transparently reversible - concealed images are shown as a placeholder
with a trivial "click to display again" option - and this sort of
"legacy filtering" should be fairly easy for a user to switch back on
or off. It's not perfect, but it's probably no *less* clunky than
requiring people to sign in (and the associated
forgetting-to-sign-out...)
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk