Marcos,

I am quite well aware of the purported purposes of w3 lists, with somewhat over a decade's experience.

however there are rather serious security and privacy concerns, and if the current UA implementations have not followed the specifications**, and these need to be fed back to the editors and authors to ensure updates and errata incorporate this possible failure.

regards

~:"

** as mentioned in the original email:
User agents should present the persistent storage feature to the user in a way that does not distinguish them from HTTP session cookies.


On 27 Jul 2009, at 18:09, Marcos Caceres wrote:

Hi,
This mailing list is for discussion of the spec, not implementations.
Please find another list to have this discussion.

Thanks!
Marcos

2009/7/27 "~:'' ありがとうございました" <[email protected]>:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/#user-tracking
Treating persistent storage as cookies: mozilla & safari

anyone been able to clear localStorage via cookie preferences in mozilla or
safari?

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd

testcase:
https://bug506639.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=390836

however not found the relevant cookie in Safari, and minefield appears
currently not to have a cookie manager
~:"









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