On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Anthony <antsc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Adam Barth <w...@adambarth.com> wrote: >> The document.cookie API is kind of terrible. Web developers shouldn't >> have to parse a cookie-string or prepare a properly formated >> set-cookie-string. Here's a proposal for an HTML cookie API that >> isn't as terrible: >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZpchfQ5mBrEZGQ0cDh3YzRfMTRmdHFma21kMg&hl=en >> >> I'd like to propose we include this API in a future version of HTML. >> As always, feedback welcome. > > Sounds good, just a little suggestion: > Maybe something like document.cookies.push({name: "a", value: "b"}) and/or > document.cookies["a"]="b". Something similar to HTMLElement.style?
What's the advantage of putting the methods on a sub object of document? That just seems like additional complexity. We don't want to use the array syntax because we want the API to be asynchronous. Adam
