Comments for Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage

Comment on Google Wants To Make TCP Faster by Fred

Fred — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:08:53 +0000

Totally on board with this. As always, “legacy” devices will stick around for-ev-ar, but that doesn’t mean a large “modern” user base shouldn’t move forward with innovations like this. Plain TCP is a very, very conservative protocol, which has served it well for a long time, but many of its underlying assumptions might not hold anymore after decades of innovation.

Comment on Firefox Tip: Disable Password Manager by Lorna

Lorna — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:32:30 +0000

OMG, duh! Thanks!

Comment on localStorage With Cookie Fallback by Robert

Robert — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:43:27 +0000

Cool... doesn't look to me like it deserializes JSON. Normally I'd typeof to handle that, but this post is what I used on safepasswd.com to "remember" your last settings. In that use case, it's always an object hence unnecessary.

Comment on Privacy Issues Behind localStorage by James Socol

James Socol — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:54:06 +0000

In the meantime, Potch wrote a bookmarklet: http://potch.me/ls/

Comment on localStorage With Cookie Fallback by James Socol

James Socol — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:27:46 +0000

Chris Van of the AMO team wrote this guy: https://gist.github.com/876117 I don’t know if it automatically deserializes JSON though.

Comment on How To Build A Good Order/Shipment Notification Email by ahmed ebrahim

ahmed ebrahim — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:24:15 +0000

i recieved mail in my house that tell me final shipment notification,what can i do

Comment on Define Mute by Justin L.

Justin L. — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:34:08 +0000

I like what Android (ICS, and I think 2.3 before that) does: Display an indicator on the lock screen saying “You have an alarm set for 2:35 PM”.

It gives you confidence that your alarm will wake you up tomorrow, and it’s a 90% solution for the accidentally-set alarm case.

Does iOS have this indicator?

Comment on Privacy Issues Behind localStorage by Robert

Robert — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:34:58 +0000

Jeff: I’d be curious if there’s any measurable difference. My understanding was that cookies have the same issue, but it’s small enough to not be worth caring about (unless you’re reading/writing lots of cookies constantly, and I can’t think of an application where that would be useful).

Comment on Privacy Issues Behind localStorage by Erunno

Erunno — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:57:56 +0000

” the impact on privacy seems to be a bit of an afterthought.”

Part of Mozilla’s sales pitch for Firefox is that it gives the users control over their data. Implementing localStorage without any means to manage it contradicts that goal directly. It’s also certainly ironic that the browser developed by one of the biggest data collectors on the Internet has better controls in this regard.

“But since the new features are not yet in common use”

It’s not as widespread as cookies or LSOs but judging by my Chrome profile localStorage is already making huge inroads, especially on the big popular sites (amazon, nytimes, etc.).

Comment on Privacy Issues Behind localStorage by Erunno

Erunno — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:49:38 +0000

“Another factor in Google’s not adopting locale storage”

Unless you talk about some other local storage your statement is wrong. My Chrome test profile shows local storage entries for several domains in the cookie manager.