[dev] thoughts on the prefs problem

[Jon Parise]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:43:44AM -0500, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> > 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.

Will do.  Actually, I'll probably do that one first.  I should get to
it later on today unless something else pops up.

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Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
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