- From: Michael Nordman <michaeln@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:17:08 -0700
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Remco <remco47 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Michael Nordman<michaeln at google.com> > wrote: > > Ok... I overstated things ;) > > What seems inevitable are vista-like prompts to allow something (or prods > to > > delete something) seemingly unrelated to a user's interaction with a > site... > > please, oh please, lets avoid making that part of the web platform. > > As far as I know, cookies work the same way as the proposed local > storage policy: once a cookie is created, the browser won't delete it > when space becomes a problem. The site controls the expiration date of > the cookie, and it can fill up the entire drive with cookies if it > wants to do so. This is all without user interaction. I don't think > this has ever been a problem. > a. cookies are compartively small... size constraints built in b. UA's actually do evict cookies if need be (hasn't ever been a problem) c. they have expriration dates, these new pieces of info don't > -- > Remco > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20090826/44408c12/attachment.htm>
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