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Reports from University of Alberta advance knowledge in web engineering

  2009 DEC 7 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to a study from Edmonton, Canada, "This paper presents the results of a novel survey probing the use of cookies with respect to country of origin and related web technologies. A number of significant relationships are established between the origin of the web application and cookie deployment."

  "Cookie usage amongst five popular dynamic web application frameworks is analyzed providing a per-country breakdown of platform adoption and the establishment of a link between dynamic web technologies and first-party and sessional cookies. The prevalence of vendor-specific third-party technologies both globally and within specific countries is studied. Although global leaders emerged, a number of country-specific market leaders were discovered, suggesting that country-specific niche technologies are competing with the globally dominant technologies within specific markets," wrote A.F. Tappenden and colleagues, University of Alberta.

  The researchers concluded: "A large association is identified between third-party persistent cookie usage and a country's e-business environment-the strongest evidence that cookies are an integral part of the global e-commerce environment."

  Tappenden and colleagues published their study in the Journal of Web Engineering (A SURVEY OF COOKIE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION AMONGST NATIONS. Journal of Web Engineering, 2009;8(3):211-244).

  For more information, contact A.F. Tappenden, University of Alberta, Dept. of Electrical & Computational Engineering, Edmonton, AB T6G 2M7, Canada.

  Publisher contact information for the Journal of Web Engineering is: Rinton Press, Inc., 565 Edmund Terrace, Paramus, NJ 07652, USA.

  Keywords: City:Edmonton, Country:Canada, Technology, Web Engineering

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