[whatwg] localStorage feedback

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Darin Fisher <darin at chromium.org> wrote:

> 1a) Given a page (domain A) containing an iframe (domain B), have the outer
> page navigate the inner frame to "about:blank".  This navigation completes
> synchronously, and the unload handler for the iframe runs before the
> navigation request completes.  This is true of all browsers.
>
> 1b) Suppose the inner page has a pending XMLHttpRequest when the outer
> frame navigates the inner frame.  The XHR's onabort handler would run before
> the navigation to "about:blank" completes.
>

These are really the same problem: synchronous cross-domain about:blank
navigation. If navigation to about:blank has to be synchronous, then I guess
it needs to drop the lock, at least in the cross-domain case.

2) Set a break point in the Mozilla JS debugger.  This runs a nested event
> loop each time you single step so that it can drive the rest of the browser
> UI.
>
> 3) Install a Firefox extension that runs a nested event loop in response to
> an event generated by content.  I debugged many Firefox crashes resulting
> from extensions that do this kind of thing for various reasons.
>

These are internal Mozilla issues and should not be allowed to influence the
design of the Web platform. They'll probably change for multi-process
anyway.

I'm not convinced.  Look at Google Maps and street view.  Gmail uses more
> Flash now than it used to.
>

For new features, sure. But are they reimplementing existing browser-based
functionality to use plugins instead?


>
>> What will you do for Gecko when it supports content processes?
>>>
>>
>> Implement the spec, I hope!
>
>
> It seems odd to me that this behavior was put into the spec without any
> implementation experience to guide it.  The only multi-process
> implementations that I know of do not have a storage mutex.
>

Lots of things are in the spec without implementation experience. I think we
have time to collect more experience on this issue with multi-process
browsers and revise the spec in light of it.

Rob
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