Re: StorageEvent.url (WAS: XMLHttpRequest.responseBlob)

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:

> On 4/29/10 9:23 AM, Jeremy Orlow wrote:
>
>> Opera 10.50 does return false for your bit of javascript, but when I
>> enumerate the properties on event after causing a storage event, "url"
>> is there.  Weird.
>>
>
> All that means is that the property is an own property of the object, not a
> property getter/setter pair on the prototype, no?
>
> It's interesting that you find this odd, given that this is exactly V8's
> behavior in general.  Compare:
>
>  alert("body" in HTMLDocument.prototype);
>  alert("body" in document");
>
> in your favorite HTML page.
>
>
>  My code did not work in Firefox 3.6.
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Storage makes no mention of
>> StorageEvent.  Do they actually support events?
>>
>
> Sure seem to, with "url" as the property name.  Or at least there's
> definitely code in the tree to dispatch it when storage changes happen.
>

The following script does not work for me in 3.6.  Would love to know what
I'm doing wrong:

window.onstorage = function() { alert("HI"); }
localStorage.foo = localStorage.foo + " ";

I don't get anything on the error console or any alert.  (Though it works in
Safari and Opera.)