[whatwg] Significant changes to globalStorage

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Dave Camp wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > 
> > I just checked in a change to make globalStorage far simpler -- I 
> > dropped all the domain manipulation stuff, and made it same-origin 
> > instead. I also dropped StorageItem and just made the Storage stuff 
> > return strings.
> 
> Perhaps the new globalStorage object should be renamed while making this 
> change?  This will let us deprecate globalStorage a bit more gracefully 
> (clients checking for its existence won't get an object that behaves 
> differently than expected).
> 
> Perhaps "localStorage"?
> 
> That still won't help users of StorageItem.value, but it might be useful 
> anyway.

Done.

I love the irony of the fact that we just renamed _global_ storage to 
_local_ storage without changing anything of the semantics...

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