[whatwg] LocalStorage in workers

[Michael Nordman]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Jeremy Orlow <jorlow at chromium.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

But it fails to solve the problem of a providing a shared storage repository
for the applications use, which at least to me is the real primary goal.
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