Re: Opting in to cookies - proposal

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 
> First of all I'm unconvinced that this will happen in reality. Can you 
> explain a usecase when a site would want to go from changing from public 
> data to private data, without changing anything else? And is this common 
> enough that we need to cater to it?

A search engine could provide search engine results through an XHR2 API, 
and then later develop a "Personalised Search Results"-type feature, for 
which the search engine needs a cookie. It would be cool if all users of 
this API were automatically updated to the personalised results.

I could imagine that if Google were deploying Personalised Search Results 
after already providing an XHR2 UI, that we'd have wanted to do this. I 
wouldn't want us to make it harder for, say, Yahoo! Search or Live Search 
to begin deploying personalised search later if they want to.

-- 
Ian Hickson               U+1047E                )\._.,--....,'``.    fL
http://ln.hixie.ch/       U+263A                /,   _.. \   _\  ;`._ ,.
Things that are impossible just take longer.   `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Received on Thursday, 19 June 2008 23:34:14 UTC