On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Drew Wilson <atwil...@google.com> wrote:
> One alternative I'd like to propose is to remove access to localStorage for > dedicated workers, and give SharedWorkers access to localStorage, but have > that storage be partitioned by the worker name (i.e. the worker can access > it, but it's not shared with web pages or any other workers and so you don't > have any synchronicity issues). > This may be interesting. It allows to keep single API for localStorage. Most of the usage is probably going to happen inside such a worker - in other words, sharing the info with other pages of the same origin may not be needed, and there is always async communication when a live page wants to share data with a shared worker. Dmitry