On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, James Robinson wrote: > > I am speaking only for myself (and not Google, WebKit, or Chromium) but > I feel obligated to point out that localStorage specifies a > fundamentally broken synchronization model that we are not able to fix > due to compatibility concerns. This is noted at > http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/#issues with a tragically optimistic > request for suggestions. As an implementor, my main motivation to pay > any attention to localStorage is to think up ways to discourage authors > from using it for anything non-trivial. > > In my opinion, the only thing left to be done with localStorage is to > write it off as an unfortunate failure, learn our lesson, and move on.
Yeah, that is also a pretty good point. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'