The document.cookie API is kind of terrible. Web developers shouldn't have to parse a cookie-string or prepare a properly formated set-cookie-string. Here's a proposal for an HTML cookie API that isn't as terrible:
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZpchfQ5mBrEZGQ0cDh3YzRfMTRmdHFma21kMg&hl=en I'd like to propose we include this API in a future version of HTML. As always, feedback welcome. Adam
