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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