But remember that it is very easy for the user to turn off or suppress cookies. My numbers are showing around 1% without cookies. (~.1% have no javascript, but I think we are skewed a bit on that).
I would rely on javascript before relying on a cookie. But that is just me -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Methvin Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 2:22 PM To: 'jQuery Discussion.' Subject: Re: [jQuery] Cookie handling in JQuery > Under RFC 2695, a user-agent (such as a Web browser) > should provide "at least 4096 bytes per cookie" - so the > 4KB is a minimum for storage - not a maximum. See: > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2965 (section 5.3). Yes, but SHOULD is not MUST. http://rfc.net/rfc2119.html All modern browsers do respect the 4KB number though, which is a decent-sized chunk of data for everything but texboxes. I can think of situations where It would be useful to persist a form's state into a cookie and restore it later. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
