On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote: > On Nov/29/2010 9:59 AM, ext Adrian Bateman wrote: >> On Wednesday, November 24, 2010 3:01 AM, Jeremy Orlow wrote: >>> For over a year now, the WebStorage spec has stipulated that >>> Local/SessionStorage store and retrieve objects per the structured clone >>> algorithm rather than strings. And yet there isn't a single implementation >>> who's implemented this. I've talked to people in the know from several of >>> the other major browsers and, although no one is super against implementing >>> it (including us), no one has it on any of their (even internal) >>> roadmaps. It's just not a high enough priority for anyone at the moment. >>> I feel pretty strongly that we should _at least_ put in some non-normative >>> note that no browser vendor is currently planning on implementing this >>> feature. Or, better yet, just remove it from the spec until support starts >>> emerging. >> I agree. We have no plans to support this in the near future either. At the >> very least, I think this should be noted as a "feature at risk" in the Call >> for Implementations [1]. > I don't have a strong preference for removing this feature or marking it as a > Feature At Risk when the Candidate is published. > > It would be good to get feedback from other implementers (Maciej?, Jonas?, > Anne?). If no one plans to implement it, perhaps it should just be removed.
We think this feature would be straightforward to implement in Safari/WebKit, and we think it is a useful feature. We would like to implement it at some point. I can't give a specific timeline. Regards, Maciej
