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Don’t use Cookies

  • April 10th, 2010
  • Posted in Browser Struggle . How to . Storage
  • By Jens Arps

– or: How to persist data in the 21st century. The common way to persist data on the client side – application state, offline data, whatever –  still is to use cookies. But times have changed, and so have browsers, and there are better ways to do it today. But why are cookies that bad? Well, here [ READ MORE ]

Safari and window.open – How to do it

  • October 8th, 2009
  • Posted in Browser Struggle
  • By Jens Arps

There is still some traffic coming in from people who are searching for how to deal with the safari popup blocker. So I thought it might be nice to also tell what you can do about it – as most people want solutions, not backgrounds… So, here you go: It’s pretty simple, really. What to do? Well, [ READ MORE ]

Safari and window.open

  • August 21st, 2009
  • Posted in Browser Struggle
  • By Jens Arps

Update: If you are interested in how to make window.open work you might want to also read the follow-up: Safari and window.open – How to do it Working on a project these days, I noticed that the only call to window.open in that app did not work in Safari. Looking into it, I found that it [ READ MORE ]

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