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Re: Client-side storage: Allow certificates to identify owner

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:42:24 +0200
To: "Brian Bober" <netdragon@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <op.t0m6gyho64w2qv@annevk-t60.oslo.opera.com>

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:32:59 +0200, Brian Bober <netdragon@gmail.com>  
wrote:
> 3rd-party content vendors who need to store simple preferences (such as
> "show playback bar") across a huge slew of domains which use their  
> services have to currently store preferences on the server-side, which  
> is very
> expensive, or otherwisepoor user-experience will result because  
> preferences only apply to one domain and not all domains which use the  
> same trusted
> third-party widget service. An example of a widget used across multiple
> publishers is a video player widget provided to online video sites by a
> trusted 3rd party company in order to make video publishing easier for  
> those sites.

The cross-site XMLHttpRequest extensions for XMLHttpRequest level 2  
discussed on public-webapi@w3.org might help with that. You wouldn't have  
client-side storage, but you would be able to fetch preferences from a  
single server.


-- 
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
Received on Tuesday, 23 October 2007 08:42:18 GMT

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