[whatwg] Proposal for Web Storage expiration

[Jonas Sicking]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Nicholas Zakas <nzakas at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> If a site could create multiple Storage areas, then I would agree that per-item expiration wouldn't be necessary and we could get along fine with per-storage expiration. However, that's not the case, and the expiration use case is clearly already present.

If we add this to IndexedDB then there are certainly multiple storage
areas. You can have any number of objectStores inside any number of
databases.

> Having every developer that wants to expire data write his or her own code seems extremely wasteful to me. Why ask people to reinvent the same functionality over and over again? Whether or not cookies are a good model to follow, the expiration functionality is what makes auth sequences using them feasible.
>
> I'd defer to those who know on implementation details, but this doesn't seem like a very hard problem to solve in a performant way.

If we add expiration to IndexedDB on an objectStore level, then the
page author doesn't need to do anything beyond setting an expiration
date, right?

/ Jonas