Comments on: Storing data on the browser

By: tazzzzz

tazzzzz — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:03:43 +0000

The technique of storing data in a form will most definitely *not* work between separate visits to the site. I think the author’s use of the phrase “between page loads” doesn’t quite coincide with the rest of his text which talks about the back/forward buttons and history.

For me, the interesting bit was the proper support for the back button plus the ability to go past the 4K cookie limit. (And, unlike cookies, you don’t have to send all of the data on every request… just the stuff that interests that particular request.)

By: Eric H. Jung

Eric H. Jung — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 08:36:45 +0000

With regards to the second half of his article (“a crazy hack”), I can’t get the demo to work in either Firefox 1.0.6 or IE 6. I think he’s smokin’ something illegal.

Yes, the data is there when you hit the back button, but not when you leave the page and come back — as he claims. I tried it and cannot replicate his results in either Firefox 1.0.6 or IE 6.

1. Goto http://codinginparadise.org/projects/tutorials/saving_session_across_page_loads/store-into-form.html and see the alert box “Storing new session value”

2. Type http://www.yahoo.com in the address bar

3. Type http://codinginparadise.org/projects/tutorials/saving_session_across_page_loads/store-into-form.html in the address bar. I again see the “Storing new session value” alert box.

Server-side sessions are required for HTTP 1.1.

By: tazzzzz

tazzzzz — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:24:26 +0000

Maybe it is common knowledge, I dunno. My last job was largely in Swing, and the one before that was in the dark days of requiring Netscape 4.7 support. That, and the requirement to support people who don’t have JavaScript on. It’s just not something I had encountered previously.

By: Bob Ippolito

Bob Ippolito — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 03:15:00 +0000

I’m surprised this isn’t common knowledge, ASP.NET has been doing this since the beginning..