[whatwg] Structured clone algorithm on LocalStorage

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Darin Fisher <darin at chromium.org> wrote:

> No, no... my point is that to the application developer, those "explicit"
> points will appear quite implicit and mysterious.  This is why I called
> out third-party JS libraries.  One day, a function that you are using
> might transition to scripting a plugin, which might cause a nested
> loop, which could then force the lock to be released.  As a programmer,
> the unlocking is not explicit or predictable.
>

The unlocking around plugin calls is a problem, but it seems to me that any
given library function is much more likely start with a plugin-based
implementation and eventually switch to a non-plugin-based implementation
than the other way around.

Beyond plugins, I hope and expect that library functions don't suddenly add
calls to alert(), showModalDialog() or synchronous XHR.

Rob
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