On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Oliver Hunt <oli...@apple.com> wrote: >> When discussing this standard we have to recognize that not all >> browsers actually have a "main thread". > > Yes they do -- we're talking about the main thread from the point of view of > javascript, which is not necessarily the UI thread.
The spec requires a single thread only for each unit of related browsing contexts. LocalStorage extends to all browsing contexts, regardless of which unit they are in. Adam