>>>>> "Les" == Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Les> I think it is also very reasonable to store user-selected preferences
Les> in cookies, especially for things likes sizes, colors, fonts for
Les> certain pages. Why should the server side have to store millions
Les> of things like that? Even if it does, the choices may be different
Les> for the same user running a different browser. Normally you
Les> would have some default that would work for the cookie-challenged
Les> folks anyway.
Please remember that the cookie space is spec'ed to be limited. So
your cookie may get pushed out for others. So there'd better be a way
to trivially reload all that stuff, or your customers will be angry.
Might as well be nice, store the info server side, and treat it
like a login.
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