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   Re: [xml-dev] Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Participation

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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> I understand that you may have limited resources. Many organizations do. 
> What I don't understand is why it's easier or cheaper to do it the wrong 
> way than the right way. HTTP authentication is built into web servers. 
> It's straight-forward to support out of the box. It takes about five 
> minutes to set up securely. It is much, much easier to use than cookies 
> are. Why do sites insist on using cookies for user authentication?

I've seen a lot of sites that do silly heavy-Javascript navigation 
stuff, the kind that (when you visit their home page) show you a page 
saying that they've noticed your browser isn't the most recent version 
of IE, so please visit http://www.microsoft.com/ and download the latest 
version.

I usually email them a big long rant about how their HTML developers are 
ripping them off, investing all that extra effort to make the site 
usable by less browsers, all for a few flashy drop down menus. Judging 
from responses I receive, the support staff seem to think that adding 
support for extra browsers is something they need to pay the Javascript 
developers more to do, not as something that would be there if they're 
paid the Javascript developers *less* in the first place. I wonder who 
could have put THAT idea in their heads, eh? :-)

ABS





 

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