<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Jeremy Orlow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jorlow@chromium.org">jorlow@chromium.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I'd like to propose we remove the "source" attribute from storage events. (<a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/#the-storage-event" target="_blank">http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/#the-storage-event</a>)<div>
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<div>In Chrome, we cannot provide access to a window object unless it's in the same process. Since there's no way to guarantee that two windows in the same origin are in the same process, Chrome would need to always set it to null in order to avoid confusing developers (since what process a page is in is really an implementation detail).</div>
<div><br></div><div>But, as far as I can tell, Safari is the only browser that currently provides this. I suspect that as other multi-process implementations are developed, they'll run into the same issue. And, even if they can technically provide synchronous access to another processes Window object, there are _very_ strong arguments against it. So, can we please remove the source attribute from storage events?</div>
<div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1, the "source" attribute is not something we will implement in Chrome.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div></div><div><br></div><div>One other question: is the URL attribute supposed to be the same as documentURI or location.href? I ask because WebKit currently uses the documentURI but if this were the correct behavior, I would have expected the spec to make that more clear.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is interesting since documentURI is a read/write property:</div><div><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#Document3-documentURI">http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#Document3-documentURI</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>-Darin</div></div><br>