[whatwg] Storage events

[Darin Fisher]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Jeremy Orlow <jorlow at chromium.org> wrote:

> I'd like to propose we remove the "source" attribute from storage events.
>  (http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/#the-storage-event)
> In Chrome, we cannot provide access to a window object unless it's in the
> same process.  Since there's no way to guarantee that two windows in the
> same origin are in the same process, Chrome would need to always set it to
> null in order to avoid confusing developers (since what process a page is in
> is really an implementation detail).
>
> But, as far as I can tell, Safari is the only browser that currently
> provides this.  I suspect that as other multi-process implementations are
> developed, they'll run into the same issue.  And, even if they can
> technically provide synchronous access to another processes Window object,
> there are _very_ strong arguments against it.  So, can we please remove the
> source attribute from storage events?
>
>
+1, the "source" attribute is not something we will implement in Chrome.



>
> One other question: is the URL attribute supposed to be the same as
> documentURI or location.href?  I ask because WebKit currently uses the
> documentURI but if this were the correct behavior, I would have expected the
> spec to make that more clear.
>

This is interesting since documentURI is a read/write property:
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#Document3-documentURI

-Darin
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