Re: Lightweight "stateful" pages?
Re: Lightweight "stateful" pages?
- Subject: Re: Lightweight "stateful" pages?
- From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:58:10 -0700
Cookies or, if you know you are using only HTML5 browsers, maybe local database storage. And don't assume there is no WO app based on the URL alone. Re-written URLs can hide a lot.
Chuck
On 2011-09-23, at 1:36 AM, Pascal Robert wrote:
> One word: cookies. Use Firebug in Firefox and you will notice that the cookie that store.apple.com sets is different on certain pages.
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>> Hi,
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>> Does anyone know (or care to guess) what Apple (and other companies) use for lightweight "stateful" Web pages before they get into full blow WO sessions?
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>> For example, on the Apple store, one can do a lot of things and the pages can remember a lot of things (e.g. shopping cart) before we seem to even see WO.
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>> Even when one starts to checkout there doesn't seem to be a WO app in action but perhaps I am missing something? I am sure there is a lot of AJAX involved so it could be just WO server-side.
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>> The root of my question is that I am trying to understand what is a good solution for those pages that don't need much state, when perhaps a full WO session would not be appropriate?
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>> I am aware of DirectActions etc.
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>> Thanks,
>> Ashley.
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>> PS Sorry if any of my terminology is incorrect ...
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>> Ashley Aitken
>> Perth, Western Australia
>> mrhatken at mac dot com
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