For all that Amazon.com does, and the sheer size of their audience, you’d think they would be very careful about the design decisions that go into their website.  I’ve used Amazon rarely over the past three years, but lately more often, and I found that parts of their site design — especially their login — make no sense to me.

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Even after years of application development experience there are still those times where you realize you’ve done something monumenally noobish and the only recourse your left is to face-palm, admit the mistake, and refactor.  I’ll share this story in the hopes that it will help someone avoid a similar snafu.

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One of the things I’ve always thought was missing from Flash was access to a browser’s cookies. I can understand the argument that cookie access is unnecessary for sites that are primarily flash based.  After all Flash’s Local Shared Objects make persisting data across sessions or page views fairly painless.  However for hybrid sites where the server passes information to the browser via cookies a developer must jump through a few hoops to get any important data sent from the server via a cookie into Flash.

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