[whatwg] Web Storage: apparent contradiction in spec

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Sep 3 16:26:37 PDT 2009


On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> 
> I think this is too specific -- it should say something more like "User 
> agents should make it clear to the user that to ensure privacy from 
> sites, he must delete persistent storage as well as HTTP session 
> cookies."  But the current wording doesn't require or even encourage 
> anything unreasonable like having cookies cleared with the same button 
> as persistent storage.

There's more wording in a later section on cookie resurrection which gives 
more background. Does that satisfy your request?

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