Displaying “New to You” Messages
You can use cookies and JavaScript to alert frequent visitors to your site to items that are new to them. This gives the user a more personalized experience when they visit your site, making it a smarter and friendlier place. Scripts 10.9, 10.10, and 10.11 add a little “New!” image to the beginning of lines when the cookie says that a line has been added since the last time the visitor was there (Figure 10.9). Again, you’ll see familiar code from previous examples in this chapter.
Figure 10.9. JavaScript can ask a cookie when you’ve last visited a site and flag new items for you.
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