Re: [widgets] Public keys in widgets URI scheme?

On Wed, 27 May 2009 20:37:53 +0200, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com> wrote:

> Do widgets not plan to make use of localStorage?  This seems useful,
> for example, in a weather widget, to store the list of ZIP codes that
> the user wants to see the weather for.

This issue is twofold:

1. A widget is simply a packaging for any application, and may use any  
technology a widget user agent supports, so in that sense, a widget that  
supports HTML5 should support anything in widget transparently and without  
workaround.  This implies that widgets with underlying support would  
support HTML5 localStorage
2. The Widgets APIs and events uses the same storage interface as HTML5  
localStorage for storing preferences, and as such it is stored (although  
in this case, the storage is not origin-bound, like in HTML5.

> With a random per-instance
> origin, the widget won't be able to access its localStorage from its
> last invocation.

Note that "random per-instance origin" here would normally imply that the  
instance is created exactly once, on installation, instead of a new  
instance for every invocation, so a widget should keep the origin across  
invocations.
-- 
Arve Bersvendsen

Opera Software ASA, http://www.opera.com/

Received on Wednesday, 27 May 2009 20:59:23 UTC