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From: wikitech-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
Brion Vibber
Sent: 06 September 2007 16:14
To: Wikimedia developers
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Cookies and preferences on
Wikimedia sites. Was: Video/audio player extension now on
test.wikipedia.org
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 9/6/07, Tim Starling
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
[snip]
> Note that when you choose a player, it saves a cookie with your
> selection, and then uses that choice from then on. The expiry time
> might need some tweaking though, I think at the moment it
expires at the end
of the session.
So.. I've been avoiding using cookies to save state for any
JS used by
anonymous users because setting a persistant
cookie will
break squid
caching.
For something like a video player preference it might not
be too bad..
but it would be good if we had a safe way to save
a little
client side
state from scripts without risk of hurting
caching.
There's the client-side storage that I think they implemented
in Firefox 2... but if it doesn't work with IE that ain't
gonna save us a lot of bandwidth. :)