[whatwg] localStorage feedback

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 19:07, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> >
> > I believe you can test if a key is in the storage area using:
> >
> >   if (key in storage) { ... }
> >
> > For example:
> >
> >   if ('document' in window.localStorage) { ... }
>
> I didn't find that in the spec anywhere. Is it somehow implicit and I 
> just missed it? Or will it be specified sometime in the future?

It's the net effect of this line in the spec:

# The names of the supported named properties on a Storage object are the 
# keys of each key/value pair currently present in the list associated 
# with the object.

...combined with the definitions in the WebIDL spec.


> > I think everyone agrees that we need a storage mechanism in workers; 
> > the question is what it should be. That's basically the same as the 
> > question of what should happen with the Web Database spec -- I don't 
> > think we would want to end up with multiple storage systems in 
> > workers. The answer to this question depends on the result of this 
> > debate in the Web Apps WG.
>
> Since I am not a w3c member and thus cannot subscribe to the Web Apps WG 
> mailing list, just want to say good luck to whomever pushes this. I 
> truly hope you guys can agree on a single storage solution that the 
> browsers all implement. It would definitely help keep my PhD thesis 
> relevant after it's finished. =)

Anybody can join the public-webapps mailing list, not just W3C members.

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