Bookmarks and Cookies

Are bookmarks and Cookies same?

[luckydude]

I have been working with HTML for almost three years and never thought of this. Are bookmarks really cookies? One of my friends ask me this question and I don't know the answer. Help me, plz.

Luckydude

[tedster]

Not at all the same thing. A bookmark is a sort of record you make in your browser -- a record of pages you want to remember. The website itself cannot initiate a bookmark unless they hack your browser somehow.

A cookie is a small text file stored in a different place from your bookmarks in the browser. A website can place this small file (only with your permission) to record various bits of information.

For example, a cookoie can remember the state of pages that you visit on their domain. That way your preferences or permissions are saved in the cookie, and you don't need to re-enter them on every visit because the website that placed the cookie can read it back on your next visit and dynamically serve you the correct pages.

[luckydude]

thanks tedster,it's clear now.

Luckydude