On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Nathan Kitchen <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi all. > > Stumbled across this article on Ars Technica regarding the abuse of the > WebSQL spec. I thought I'd share it here for a couple of reasons: > > 1. Someone might want to point out that it's part of the Offline > Storage Spec, not strictly HTML5. > > HTML5 is a buzz word. Like AJAX or LAMP. Very few people in this world (should) care about precisely what spec something came from. > > 1. Security implications may inform some aspects of the spec. > > http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/#user-tracking and http://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/#user-tracking already addresses EXACTLY this. I don't think there's anything to do from a spec standpoint. > > > Article: *Advertisers get hands stuck inside HTML5 database cookie jar* ( > http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/09/rldguid-tracking-cookies-in-safari-database-form.ars > ) > > Thanks. > > Nathan >
