[whatwg] LocalStorage in workers

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Jeremy Orlow <jorlow at chromium.org> wrote:

> 1) Create a LocalStorage like API that can only be accessed in an async way
> via pages (kind of like WebDatabase).
>
> 2) Remove any
> atomicity/consistency guarantees from synchronous LocalStorage access within
> pages (like IE8 currently does) and add an async interface for when pages do
> need atomicity/consistency.
>
> 3) Come up with a completely different storage API that all the browser
> vendors are willing to implement that only allows Async access from within
> pages.  WebSimpleDatabase might be a good starting point for this.
>

4) Create WorkerStorage so that shared workers have exclusive, synchronous
access to their own persistent storage via an API compatible with
LocalStorage.

This sounds like it has a low implementation cost and solves many use cases
in a very simple way, right?

Rob
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