<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Robby Findler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Eli Barzilay <<a href="mailto:eli@barzilay.org">eli@barzilay.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Yesterday, Robby Findler wrote:<br>
>> Also, when I disable cookies, I see that the context sensitive<br>
>> search just silently doesn't work.<br>
>><br>
>> Would it be possible to always have the search set a (separate)<br>
>> cookie and give a warning if it doesn't find the (constant) cookie?<br>
><br>
> I think that it's far more likely that JS fails, so you won't see any<br>
> warning anyway.<br>
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</div>JS could also hide a warning that JS wasn't available, right?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> As for a warning when chrome prevents storing a cookie, I remember<br>
> trying that and IIRC it can't even tell when you're not allowed to<br>
> store a cookie.<br>
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</div>Yeah, I can see how they'd set things up like that.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have JS and Cookies enabled on both browsers, so that's not the problem.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">
>> I don't understand the last bit about refreshing and reseting the<br>>> cookie. What problem is this second trampoline trying to fix?<br>></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">>page it will re-set the cookie. The trampoline page is therefore</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">>If you keep the "hq=blah" in the URL, then whenever you visit that<br></span></div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">>setting the cookie and then takes you further to the usual search page</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">>without the parameter being part of the URL.</span></div>
<div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">and why are we using cookies?</span></font></div>
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