Back in the day, I had to

decibel.places — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:19:08 +0000

Back in the day, I had to detect NS2 because, among other deficiencies, it had no Math.random ... IE3 rocked at that point!

Some of my code on netsperience 1.x on GeoCities still has that detection.

BTW I left Firefox in block cookies mode by accident and I was unable to view a Drupal project that was in offline mode - kept getting the site offline page... ACK

COSSOFT wrote: I think that

decibel.places — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:17:25 +0000

COSSOFT wrote:

I think that most (general) users don't know what a cookie is anyway

Well, I participate in surveys, and I believe that Harris Online always includes a question about invasions of privacy, including screening employees for HIV/AIDS, unsolicited phone calls, and internet tracking cookies - so it is something that is being tracked by opinion research, and probably not as unknown as you may think.

Yes, 2004 is a long time ago, I was asking if anybody can help me find a more recent study.

Netscape Communicator

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:18:36 +0000

Netscape Communicator 4.x...Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x

I very rarely see URL

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:17:30 +0000

I very rarely see URL rewriting these days, and would not code for it anymore.

You lost me here. What does this have to do with cookies?

Well, I put a hidden div

decibel.places — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:03:47 +0000

Well, I put a hidden div that displays a message if cookies are disabled.

The message includes a link to this excellent page about enabling cookies in many browsers

I explained pros and cons to client - that cookies will require age verification once - but anybody without cookies will be blocked from viewing the site - alternatively viewers would need to verify each visit without cookies.

I happened to meet an employee of Fly Concepts that includes in its clients some big liquor accounts, and she told me they have the viewers verify every time - now we know why.

2004 is thousands of years

COSSOFT — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:20:57 +0000

2004 is thousands of years ago in IT time. What happened then is virtually irrelevant today. I think that most (general) users don't know what a cookie is anyway, so they're unlikely to block them intentionally. As for unintentional blocking, don't forget that if you block them a very significant proportion of sites just won't work (like this one). I very rarely see URL rewriting these days, and would not code for it anymore.
Also remember that most modern browsers can delete them on exit so privacy is preserved (as much as it can be whilst state is maintained).

Some browsers block 3rd

pr0gr4mm3r — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:04:40 +0000

Some browsers block 3rd party cookies, but I don't hear of that many people blocking regular domain cookies. I code all my websites with the assumption that the visitor will accept my cookies.