Re: [whatwg] Something better than DOM_QUOTA_ERROR when LocalStorage is immutable?

2009-06-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Jeremy Orlow wrote: When in private browsing mode, WebKit should not write any data to the hard drive. In addition, WebKit does not allow changes to localStorage that aren't going to be written to disk. Currently, it returns a DOM_QUOTA_ERROR on setItem when private

Re: [whatwg] Something better than DOM_QUOTA_ERROR when LocalStorage is immutable?

2009-06-04 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:15:31 +0200, Jeremy Orlow jor...@chromium.org wrote: *Please, keep this on topic. There's no point to rehashing http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-April/019238.htmlor any of the other similar debates on private browsing and localStorage's

Re: [whatwg] Something better than DOM_QUOTA_ERROR when LocalStorage is immutable?

2009-06-04 Thread Darin Adler
On Jun 4, 2009, at 12:27 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: Doesn't this reveal what mode the user is using to view the site? That seems kind of bad. It all depends on the intent of the feature. Some browsers have features intended to shield the identity of the person doing browsing from the

[whatwg] Something better than DOM_QUOTA_ERROR when LocalStorage is immutable?

2009-06-03 Thread Jeremy Orlow
*Please, keep this on topic. There's no point to rehashing http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-April/019238.htmlor any of the other similar debates on private browsing and localStorage's persistence guarantees.* When in private browsing mode, WebKit should not write any data