I recall talking to hixie about this at some point, and I recall that at that point localstorage was explicitly prevented from Blobs, although I can't see any sign of that rule anymore :-/
--Oliver On Dec 3, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Darin Fisher wrote: > Have you guys considered what happens when a Blob is present? I'm very > concerned about that case since WebStorage is a synchronous API. If storing > a Blob in LocalStorage involves synchronous disk IO, then I'm pretty sure it > is something I would object to implementing. I don't think there is a > hand-wavy answer about performing a file copy asynchronously in the > background. What if the file copy fails? > > -Darin > > > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:51:29 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak <[email protected]> wrote: > We think this feature would be straightforward to implement in Safari/WebKit, > and we think it is a useful feature. We would like to implement it at some > point. I can't give a specific timeline. > > I am not sure if it is straightforward to implement in Opera, but this > applies to us as well. > > > -- > Anne van Kesteren > http://annevankesteren.nl/ > >
