Re: RfC: moving Web Storage to WG Note; deadline June 29

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:

> On 6/20/11 8:20 AM, Marcos Caceres wrote:
>
>> Browser extensions are in every browser, so in a sense are part of the
>> web platform.
>>
>
> I strongly object to both this claim and the idea that browser extension
> concerns should affect web-exposed APIs in general....
>
> The APIs exposed to browser extensions are similar to the web platform but
> quite different from it in all sorts of ways.
>
> -Boris
>

Futhermore, they are by far not the same (or even similar) between browsers,
while Web Storage is at least similar.

Andres Riofrio
<riofrios@gmail.com>