On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jeremy Orlow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jorlow@google.com">jorlow@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Robert O'Callahan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert@ocallahan.org" target="_blank">robert@ocallahan.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
Unfortunately we have to deal with cookies and localStorage, where the API is already set.</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>Is it "set"?<br><br>I understand that localStorage has been around for a while, but as far as I can tell virtually no one uses it. I thought the reason for calling this spec a draft was so that such fairly major issues could be corrected? I agree that changing something this late in the game is less than ideal, but I think we're both agreeing that any synchronous APIs that cross the event-loop are going to be long term problems.<br>
</div></div>
</blockquote></div><br>AFAIK every major browser has an implementation of localStorage close to shipping. The only way I can imagine having a chance to put the brakes on the feature now is for everyone who hasn't actually shipped it --- which I think is currently everyone but IE, since we shipped the old "globalStorage" which we're planning to rip out anyway --- to unite and disable it immediately until we have a better API. Maybe we could even get IE to disable it in an update.<br>
<br>Mozilla could probably get behind that, but I don't know who else is willing to bite the bullet.<br><br>I suppose "sessionStorage" can stay?<br><br>Rob<br>-- <br>"He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah 53:5-6]<br>