Re: [jQuery] Best way for storing user preferences?

2006-10-11 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Raffael Luthiger wrote: > Thanks Gilles, Mark and Luke! > > I was thinking about the cookie as well. But the problem I see here that > a cookie can have in the maximum the size of 4k. It's not that I would > reach the limit now, but I don't want to run into strange problems as > soon as the app

Re: [jQuery] Best way for storing user preferences?

2006-10-11 Thread Raffael Luthiger
Thanks Gilles, Mark and Luke! I was thinking about the cookie as well. But the problem I see here that a cookie can have in the maximum the size of 4k. It's not that I would reach the limit now, but I don't want to run into strange problems as soon as the application get larger over time. From

Re: [jQuery] Best way for storing user preferences?

2006-10-11 Thread Luke Lutman
I'd go for something like option 4, but instead of the custom attribute/DTD stuff, just give it a classname. i.e.: Luke Raffael Luthiger wrote: > Hi, > > I've seen searching lately for a good way of storing preferences which a > jQuery script needs later on. The specific information the scr

Re: [jQuery] Best way for storing user preferences?

2006-10-11 Thread Mark Gibson
Raffael Luthiger wrote: > 2) The js-script gets generated each time the page is called. And the > corresponding vars are set in there. > > 3) Every time the page is loaded the js-script asks the server for a XML > (or JSON) file with the preferences in there. > > 5) More (and better) ideas? I'

Re: [jQuery] Best way for storing user preferences?

2006-10-11 Thread Webunity | Gilles van den Hoven
Raffael Luthiger wrote: > 3) Every time the page is loaded the js-script asks the server for a XML > (or JSON) file with the preferences in there. > Option 3, but save the data you got from the server in a cookie, which you destroy after 1 day or something like that. Each time the user change