[whatwg] Storage Events for a Specific Storage Area

[Joseph Pecoraro]

It sounds like there wasn't any discussion on this.  I recently heard  
talk of other potential Storage areas [2]. That would make this idea  
even more appealing to me.  Does this sound like something worth  
adding?  Any comments?

[2]: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020485.html

On Jun 17, 2009, at 1: 44PM, Joseph Pecoraro wrote:

> The "storage" event [1] fires for both sessionStorage and  
> localStorage.  To me, this means if you only want to interact with  
> localStorage you will have to manually ensure that it is the storage  
> area being modified:
>
>  window.addEventListener('storage', function(e) {
>    if ( e.storageArea === localStorage ) {
>      // ...
>    }
>  }
>
> Was there any discussion about creating events specific to the  
> storage object, or should that already be possible?  I've been  
> playing around with WebKit's Storage implementation, and the  
> following (understandably) is not possible:
>
>  > localStorage.addEventListener
>  undefined
>
> Is there any way to listen to events for a single specific storage  
> area or is the previously mentioned approach preferred?
>
> Cheers,
> Joe
>
> [1]: http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/#the-storage-event