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Building Site Favorites with an XML Super Cookie

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HTML, CSS and XML, Internet Explorer
Language
JavaScript
Product
IE5
Task
Browser Enhancement, Components, Link Management
Technology
IE5 Behaviors, XML

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Building Site Favorites with an XML Super Cookie
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Short Description
Using client-side XML persistance in IE5, we show you how to store a favorite list for your users.

Long Description
IE5 supports a more powerful "cookie" for storing data on the user's machine using XML. In this article, we demonstrate how to use the IE5 user data behavior to store and retrieve a site favorite list on the client's machine. The same techniques can be used to provide site personalization. No server scripting required!

Author: Scott Isaacs
Date/ Version: 3/28/2000
Submission URL: http://www.SiteExperts.com/tips/xml/ts05/page1.asp
Submission Date: Mar 28,2000
Last Update: Mar 28,2000

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Overall Rating: 4

cgisackson on Feb 26, 2002 at 7:26:14 AM Rating: 4
Well done example. Thanks, michaelphipps, for telling us where the cookie is deposited!
cgisackson on Feb 26, 2002 at 7:23:44 AM No Rating
btcchan on Feb 25, 2002 at 10:35:24 AM Rating: 4
I have tried to use Netscape 6.1 to test out the codes, and I found that the codes did not work. Does Netscape support the "User data behavior"??
erqain on Nov 19, 2001 at 12:42:35 AM Rating: 4
respect for the code,
but the code seems to build a new favorites.xml for every page that are in different directories, anyone tested that ?
michaelphipps on Apr 18, 2001 at 5:43:30 PM Rating: 4
in answer to the question about where the file is stored...

WINNT OR WINDOWS DIRECTORY
   |
   PROFILES
       |
       YOURPROFILENAME
              |
              APPLICATIONDATA
                     |
                     MICROSOFT
                         |
                         INTERNET EXPLORER
                                |
                                USERDATA

wcreswell on Feb 16, 2001 at 3:54:45 AM No Rating
Turning the security settings to prompt before allowing cookies did not stop this favorites list from functioning. Would definitely like to know more about this!

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