From: Herouth Maoz (herouth_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 11 Mar 2003 - 23:35:27 IST
At 18:47 +0200 on 11/3/2003, Alon Altman wrote:
> The question is- does it support MSIE 7.0? The answer: They don't know.
This question is the same for a standards-compliant site, because you
don't know when one of the browsers is going to pick up on a new
standard and ruin everything. This has happened to me lately: I've
always used cookies for sessions, it's as standard as muck. Now
marketing has asked me to put that site within a frame so that "the
location bar will show our domain and nothing else". The frameset is
in domain A, the frame within it is in domain B. So far, no standards
broken, Mozilla works perfectly, MSIE 5.5 works, hunky dory.
But MSIE 6 doesn't accept my cookie. This is because is an early
adopter of a W3C standard called P3P, which is a standard defining
privacy policies. Apparently, in default mode MSIE 6 accepts cookies
from the main domain of a given page (i.e. the frameset), but
requires something called "Compact policy" to be sent over, in order
for it to accept the cookie (which comes from domain B). Darn, now I
have to study the P3P standard, study the part about compact
policies, learn what I have to stick there (and nobody in marketing
is going to tell me what our actual privacy policy is, because we
don't actually have one) to make it work. In the meantime, many users
can't register to our service. To them, the site is "broken" (unless
we convince them to change the default security setting, and I don't
like doing that).
So that argument is out the window as well.
Herouth
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