- From: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:01:59 -0400
- To: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Hi All, Despite Web Storage bug 12111 now having a fix [1], the "elephant in the room" [2] for this spec is still the mutex issue encapsulated in the spec: [[ http://www.w3.org/2011/06/Web%20Storage.html#issues The use of the storage mutex to avoid race conditions is currently considered by certain implementors to be too high a performance burden, to the point where allowing data corruption is considered preferable. ]] Given: Indexed Database API provides an alternative to Web Storage, the relative severity of this issue, there is no plan to fix this issue, _this is a Request for Comments to stop work on this spec and for [1] (or a similar fix to bug 12111) to serve as the basis of a WG Note_ (as was done for the Web SQL Database spec). One consequence of moving Storage to WG Note is that any spec that references Web Storage would need to change. The only spec I know of with such a dependency is the Widget Interface spec and it could solve this problem by copying those parts of the Storage spec that it needs (Marcos has done some preliminary analysis on this). If anyone knows of any other spec that references Web Storage, please let us know. Comments on this proposal are welcome and please send them by June 27 at the latest. -AB [1] http://www.w3.org/2011/06/Web%20Storage.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_in_the_room
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