On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > > > > I really think the API should be asynchronous, as to avoid the mess > > that .localStorage currently is. > > Done. > > Adam > I have frequently seen code like this: document.cookie = "foo=1"; if (document.cookie.indexOf("foo") == -1) return; document.cookie = "bar=2"; if (document.cookie.indexOf("bar") == -1) return; I presume it is not uncommon for web authors to want to know if the cookies were set. Maybe there should be an optional error callback on document.setCookie? -Darin
