[dev] thoughts on the prefs problem

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Jon Parise <jon@csh.rit.edu>:

> That's a good idea.  Ideally, however, all of the preference drivers
> should use session storage for their data.  In my latest revision of
> the preferences code, I didn't optimize the entire process.  Every
> page load retrieves the user's preferences from storage.  This could
> all be streamlined so that it will only contact the preference storage
> when necessary.
[snip]
> I'll try and work on cleaning this up over the next couple of days.

Sounds good. How about still having a 'session', driver, though, for sites that 
want to enable preferences on a per-session basis, but not store them 
anywhere. 'none' would still have the effect of turning off prefs completely - 
no menu item, etc.

-chuck

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