Re: [whatwg] whatwg Digest, Vol 71, Issue 72

2010-02-24 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Adam Barth w...@adambarth.com wrote: The document.cookie API is kind of terrible. Web developers shouldn't have to parse a cookie-string or prepare a properly formated set-cookie-string. Here's a proposal for an HTML cookie API that isn't as terrible:

Re: [whatwg] whatwg Digest, Vol 71, Issue 72

2010-02-24 Thread Adam Barth
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Anthony antsc...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Adam Barth w...@adambarth.com wrote: The document.cookie API is kind of terrible.  Web developers shouldn't have to parse a cookie-string or prepare a properly formated set-cookie-string.  

Re: [whatwg] whatwg Digest, Vol 71, Issue 72

2010-02-24 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 2/24/10 1:04 PM, David Flanagan wrote: If I've been following the thread correctly, the justification for an asynchronous API was that localStorage is a mess, or something like that. I'm not aware of what the issues are with localStorage In brief, the fact that if you have multiple threads