Re: localStorage Event

Perhaps I am mistaken, but I believe you would still have to go around and
add that trigger to all the places the value is changed from.

-J

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi>wrote:

> On 1/28/10 11:57 PM, Jared Morse wrote:
>
>> Even though it occurs on the same document, doesn't mean loosely coupled
>> code can't benefit from it.
>>
>> Imagine if each time you added a feature to a web app that depended on
>> knowing a current value from the storage, you'd have to go around to all
>> the places that value is changed and add some code to alert your new
>> code.  If storage events triggered on the same document, all you would
>> have to do is set a listener.
>>
>
> If you really need this behavior, you can always dispatch your own event
> to the window when you change the data.
>
>
> -Olli
>
>
>
>> -J
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi
>> <mailto:Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi>> wrote:
>>
>>    On 1/28/10 9:34 PM, Jared Morse wrote:
>>
>>        Hi, I have a concern about the web storage event spec
>>        (http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/).
>>
>>        The spec states:
>>        "When the setItem(), removeItem(), and clear()  methods are
>>        called on a
>>        Storage object x that is associated with a local storage area,
>>        if the
>>        methods did something, then in every HTMLDocument object whose
>>        Window
>>        object's localStorage attribute's Storage object is associated
>>        with the
>>        same storage area, other than x, a storage event must be fired..."
>>
>>        My concern lies with the "other than x" part.  Unless I'm missing
>>        something, these events would be even more useful if they also
>>        fired in
>>        the HTMLDocument that initially made the storage call.
>>
>>
>>    The page which is changing storage object knows already that the
>>    storage object is being changed. Why would it need explicit
>>    notification (event) about that?
>>
>>
>>    -Olli
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>        Thanks for your time.
>>
>>        -Jared
>>
>>
>>
>>
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