On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Dmitry Titov <dim...@google.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Drew Wilson <atwil...@google.com> wrote: >> >> One alternative I'd like to propose is to remove access to localStorage >> for dedicated workers, and give SharedWorkers access to localStorage, but >> have that storage be partitioned by the worker name (i.e. the worker can >> access it, but it's not shared with web pages or any other workers and so >> you don't have any synchronicity issues). > > This may be interesting. It allows to keep single API for localStorage. Most > of the usage is probably going to happen inside such a worker - in other > words, sharing the info with other pages of the same origin may not be > needed, and there is always async communication when a live page wants to > share data with a shared worker.
Interesting... essentially a page/worker specific persistent repository... doesn't span in the way "localStorage" does.