To be clear, I'm not trying to reopen the topic of giving cookie access to workers - I'm happy to restrict cookie access to document context (I probably shouldn't have brought it up again). I do agree with Jeremy that we should rethink the spec language around cookie consistency to reflect what implementors are actually willing to build.
-atw On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Jeremy Orlow <jor...@chromium.org> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Benjamin Smedberg > <benja...@smedbergs.us>wrote: > >> What kind of conflict? There is no need to "merge" individual cookies: >> whichever one was set (or removed) last wins. > > > I think this strategy would work fine for cookies since the HTTP side of > them is inherently racy. I think such behavior would be pretty > counter-intuitive for localStorage, though. > > If we did go with this strategy, I think we could give access to shared > workers, and someone could use those if they needed better "atomicity". >
