Developing For The Whole World

So I was finally able to reproduce our fun little bug by logging in to Dr. Lunch, manually deleting all of my cookies and then clicking on the sign off button. That got me to the point where I could fix things, but all the while I'm thinking, "this seems a pretty unlikely sequence of events in the real world." I mean, who does this?

Then I'm shooting the breeze with one of my co-workers, who says "what if someone had cookies turned off?" What would happen? The exact same thing as happened in my exceptionally elaborate testing scenerio. D'oh. Well, at least I can sleep tonight.

And, really, this is the wonderful thing about developing Dr. Lunch vs. developing in the corporate world. In the corporate world, no one turns off cookies. Or, if they do, you get a call and you say "turn back on cookies" and then you have a good laugh about how all users are idiots. But when you're developing for the wide open world, not really and option, G.