[whatwg] Web Storage: apparent contradiction in spec

[Aryeh Gregor]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Adrian Sutton<adrian.sutton at ephox.com> wrote:
> Besides which, there are already very popular UAs that have no support for
> Flash and thus no Flash LocalStorage.  It would be nice to not create the
> same privacy hole on those platforms.

What's the privacy hole, if users are given an option to clear
localStorage in the standard "clear private data" dialog?  It should
just be a separate option from cookies, since users might legitimately
want to clear cookies (typically login info) but not localStorage.