Would you rather see sites which use
> Javascript switch to using cookies? Both Amazon and Google, to use
> your two examples, make liberal use of cookies to keep track of > users.
Actually, I would. I know what cookies can and can't do, and I know that they are far less dangerous than Javascript. There's no way a cookie can hose my machine the way Javascript can. And fears of "keeping track of users" (which are tremendously overstated) can be relieved by having the browser delete cookies at the end of the session.