On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Chris Jones<cjo...@mozilla.com> wrote: > With my proposal, a web app that tests whether localStorage is available > with |window.localStorage === undefined| would conclude that it's not, > because that object would not be available until |window.transaction| or > whatever was accessed. In Jeremy's and Benjamin's proposals, a web app > using that would check would conclude that window.localStorage *is* > available.
Aha, I had missed this (clever) idea in your original proposal. I also do not have a strong opinion on having vs not having this as part of the API. - a