[whatwg] LocalStorage in workers

[Jeremy Orlow]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org>wrote:

> 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.
>

Ah yes.  That is also an option.

And, now that I think about it (combined with Jonas' last point) I think it
might be the best option since it has a very low implementation cost, it
keeps the very simple API, and solves the primary problem of not blocking
pages' event loops.
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