[whatwg] HTML Cookie API

[Adam Barth]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Darin Fisher <darin at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Adam Barth <w3c at adambarth.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Adam Barth <w3c at 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.
>
> I have frequently seen code like this:
>
> document.cookie = "foo=1";
> if (document.cookie.indexOf("foo") == -1) return;
> document.cookie = "bar=2";
> if (document.cookie.indexOf("bar") == -1) return;
>
> I presume it is not uncommon for web authors to want to know if the cookies
> were set.  Maybe there should be an optional error callback on
> document.setCookie?

Done.

Adam