Blargh.
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Aaron Boodman <a...@google.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Jeremy Orlow <jor...@google.com> wrote:
>> Aaron, what's the plan for extensions using localStorage and databases. I
>> assume they'll each have their own origin that's independent of what page
>> the user is currently browsing?
>
> Yes. Every extension runs in a unique origin of the form
> chrome-extension://<host>/ where <host> is the extension's unique ID.
>
> We did this so that web pages would just work naturally as extensions
> without any hacks to the web platform. The concept of origin is pretty
> important throughout HTML/JavaScript/DOM, so it made sense to give
> extensions one if they were going to be reusing those technologies.
>
> - a
>
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