[whatwg] [Web-storage] subdomains / cooperation and limits

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Sep 17 14:22:02 PDT 2012


On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Brian Kardell wrote:
> 
> Essentially, x.wordpress.com and y.wordpress.com both allocate and use 
> space - no problem, right?  Access is subject to the browsers -general- 
> [same-origin policy], (leaving aside the ability to document.domain up 
> one), right?  If I have two affliate sites who communicate across an 
> explicit trust via postMessage - is this problematic?  I thought not, 
> and it doesn't seem to be - further - I cannot imagine how it could work 
> otherwise and still be useful for a host of common cases (like the 
> wordpress one I mentioned above).  I have been told that the draft 
> contradicts my understanding, but I don't think so.

I don't really understand your question, but does this answer it?:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/webstorage.html#disk-space-0

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