<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Ian Hickson <span dir="ltr"><ian@hixie.ch></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Jeremy Orlow wrote:<br>
><br>
> I created a page that sets a variable in sessionStorage, then I<br>
> navigated to a different domain, then I went back to the page and<br>
> checked if the variable was still set. In Safari 4 (beta) it is. In<br>
> IE8 it isn't. The spec is not terribly clear: "When a top-level browsing<br>
> context is destroyed (and therefore permanently inaccessible to the<br>
> user) the data stored in its session storage areas can be discarded with<br>
> it, as the API described in this specification provides no way for that<br>
> data to ever be subsequently retrieved."<br>
><br>
> Can anyone explain what's intended here? If not, can the spec make it<br>
> more clear?<br>
<br>
</div></div>IE8 is buggy according to the text you quoted. I don't understand why the<br>
text is unclear. Does the definition of "browsing context" not leave this<br>
unambiguous?<br></blockquote></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#888888"><br></font><div>My mistake. Browsing context does make this clear. Sorry!</div>