On Apr 7, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) wrote:
I strongly share Jonas' concern that we'd tell web applications that
we're storing there data when we already know we're going to dump it
later. For 3 and 4 both, we're basically lying to the application
and therefore the user. Imagine a scenario where a user has no
network connection and unknowingly left their browser in private
browsing mode. Email, documents, financial transactions, etc could
all be "saved" locally then later thrown away before they've had a
chance to sync to a server.
The same argument could be made for retaining cookies set during
private browsing ;-)
I disagree, as cookies are already specified to be of unspecified
persistence. I believe a user agent can - at any time - prune cookies
from it's cookie store and not be in violation of the cookies spec.
~Brady