[whatwg] StorageEvent deficiency
Brady Eidson
beidson at apple.com
Tue May 20 11:38:58 PDT 2008
The StorageEvent has almost all the information in it that a script
would need, except one.
Imagine a multi-frame page where each document is from the same
security origin. In this case, if one document on the page changes
either a SessionStorage item or a LocalStorage item, the other
documents on the page have no way of knowing if the StorageEvent
generated is from changing SessionStorage or LocalStorage.
One might argue they could compare the changed key/value in the event
to their SessionStorage and LocalStorage and infer which one generated
the event, but this is not fool proof. There are a number of
situations that could arise where a script couldn't infer which
Storage object had changed.
I propose adding an additional property to the StorageEvent interface:
interface StorageEvent : Event {
...
readonly attribute Storage storageArea;
...
}
The name of the attribute is up in the air, but the point is that the
object would be either the SessionStorage object or the LocalStorage
object.
Thanks,
~Brady
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