- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:50:49 -0800
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Anthony <antscape at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Adam Barth <w3c at adambarth.com> 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.
>
> Sounds good, just a little suggestion:
> Maybe something like document.cookies.push({name: "a", value: "b"}) and/or
> document.cookies["a"]="b". Something similar to HTMLElement.style?
What's the advantage of putting the methods on a sub object of
document? That just seems like additional complexity. We don't want
to use the array syntax because we want the API to be asynchronous.
Adam
Received on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 08:50:49 UTC