On Apr 7, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) wrote:
2009/4/7 Jonas Sicking <[email protected]>
I do agree that there's still need for storing data while in private
browsing mode. So I do think it makes a lot of sense for
.sessionStorage to keep working.
But I do have concerned about essentially telling a website that we'll
store the requested data, only to drop it on the floor as soon as the
user exits private browsing mode (or crashes).
/ Jonas
Doesn't the website have to handle that anyways? I mean, I assume
that all the browsers are going to allow users some way to "manage"
this stuff, much like cache/cookies - e.g. you have to assume that
at some point in time the user is going to blow you away.
(Especially on mobile devices where space is more of a premium...)
Caches are always assumed to be temporary and recoverable, and cookies
have severe size and lifetime limitations placed on them (ie - the
User Agent can never be excepted to keep cookies around for any
predictable lifetime, per the cookies spec).
LocalStorage and Databases are expected to be persistent unless a
script or the user explicitly removes them. They're more like files,
where arbitrarily misplacing them is unacceptable.
~Brady
-Ian
