Response Just read Silo Design for Web Transactions . Some good points. If they forget that they need a hat for Aunt Sadie in the middle of entering the gift card text for Cousin Jim, they can abandon the card, browse some more to find Aunt Sadie the perfect toque, all the while not losing the shipping info for Cousin Jim. Rick Levine Sun Microsystems Rick's bro is doing it right. Users should never lose their work, no matter how much work guaranteeing that causes us.
Web pages are stateless.
When many folks read that back at the beginning of this revolution, they took it to mean that their sites could be stateless, no matter what kind of mischief it caused. We have not been freed from an obligation to protect our users by maintaining state on our own. All rights reserved.