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Introduction: Last week, I spent a long time unpacking in a (hopefully) logical way that you can leverage the IE Default Behavior, userData to be a super cookie. Hopefully you found it useful or at least well written...maybe you just liked the font. Either way it represented the world "as I knew it". So being the proud papa that I am, I showed my latest effort to a co-worker here (Keith Pelletier, all around web and UI dude..that's really his title). Keith takes one look at it and says, "no, that's not true. I think..." And in the nicest possible way, systematically unravels my entire concept, in a good way of course. So this week's episode is a sequel to last week, kind of a Special Enhanced Edition, if you will, with all new special effects! While you read this, I'll be sitting down having a huge serving of Humble Pie..along with a cuppa Yorkshire (Gold preferred, splash of milk and a sugar). No You Can't: Last week I pr...

Preamble: It's probably time for a re-introduction of the concept here and what I'm all about. What I'm documenting here is the Microsoft specific implementation of ECMAScript/Javascript, and that's the title: JScript. This stuff won't work on any browser except IE. Right now IE 6.0 is the best IE there is. Now that might be akin to having the nicest trailer in Brighton (a local suburb of questionable repute), but that's just the way it is. I spend all day writing applications that use the IE browser as their execution container and IIS as the deployment server. Some people call that web development, some call it web applications, I prefer to call them web enabled/web deployed applications. Some really smart people call these Zero Footprint Apps...and there are lot's of good names for them. Honestly, I'm not a very good web page or web site developer, but I do enjoy messing around with that from time to time. But if you hate IE (and perhaps you have a ...