JavaScript considered harmful (was Re: New online index to Beazley's tutorials)

[Mark McEahern]

> >one approach would be to require at least session cookies.
>
> Why?  That's stupid.

Hmm, yahoo.com requires at least session cookies.  Stupid or not.

> Too many sites misuse cookies, so lots of people
> turn cookies off.

Lots of people are overly paranoid about cookies.  It'd be nice to have a
reasoned discussion of the costs/benefits.

> Alex's point about cookies for storing login
> information across sessions at least makes some sense for persistent
> storage, but cookies for sessions IDs is absurd.

Hmm, you seem to be taking this personally.  Absurd is a bit strong.

Cheers,

// mark