[whatwg] Storage mutex feedback

[Jeremy Orlow]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:24 AM, timeless <timeless at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Ian Hickson<ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > Upon further consideration I've renamed getStorageUpdates() to
> > yieldForStorageUpdates().
>
> If getStorageUpdates() actually returned how *many* updates there
> were, it could be a vaguely useful name.
>
> If the answer is 0, then my application knows it doesn't need to try
> to figure out how the world changed, right?
>

I like this idea except for one problem:  It doesn't tell whether something
got changed without your knowledge.  If you call alert, access a plugin, etc
it's possible to drop the lock.  I think some sort of global counter,
variable, etc would be more valuable since it solves both problems.
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