to make it impossible to do any damage with a cookie. A web site can
create a cookie, which is only a small text file, and cookies can only be
read by the site that created them. When the Internet started to become
very popular, people who didn't really understand the technology began to
worry about cookies. Around the same time, advertising companies, notably
doubleclick.com perfected the technique of cross-site cookies, but only by
being a partner on many sites. This permitted double click to read what it
had left off on one site when you visited another site if doubleclick had
an arrangement with both. Even so, it can only read what you tell it.
You are right that this is a controversial question, but I do not believe
it is impolite to use cookies. I think cookie paranoia is on the decline,
and the current version of Microsoft Internet Explorer, which is now the
dominant browser lets the user block all or some cookies.
Jack
At 01:22 PM 4/23/2003 +0200, you wrote:
John Hall wrote:
One other thought has occurred to me regarding the setting of new
coordinates - if these are stored in a 'cookie' by the JavaScript - the
user would not have to set up the calculator each time at their own location
A lot of thanks for your help, John. In fact, the idea of the calculator
came to my mind when I was making a simple exercise on how to set up
JavaScript cookies,
but I discarded the idea because I thought it'd be unpolite to introduce
cookies in some other people's computers. You know this is a controverted
question!
Anyway, John's suggestion gave me the idea to introduce the cookies BUT
asking first the user for permission. What do you people think about this?
By the way. Attending to your requests I've made a full English version of
UbiSolis. It is still at
http://www.relojesdesol.org/UbiSolENG.html
I'll try to make a Dutch version when I've got time for it, and I would
greatly appreciate your sending me translations in other languages.
Keep sending suggestions!
Anselmo Perez Serrada
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