I will also add that I think WebStorage (well LocalStorage) is terrible from a performance point of view because it is synchronous, and I'd be very happy if we could discourage its usage and give people more reasons to adopt a better API like IndexedDB. -Darin On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Darin Fisher <darin@chromium.org> wrote: > Have you guys considered what happens when a Blob is present? I'm very > concerned about that case since WebStorage is a synchronous API. If storing > a Blob in LocalStorage involves synchronous disk IO, then I'm pretty sure it > is something I would object to implementing. I don't think there is a > hand-wavy answer about performing a file copy asynchronously in the > background. What if the file copy fails? > > -Darin > > > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>wrote: > >> On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:51:29 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> >> wrote: >> >>> We think this feature would be straightforward to implement in >>> Safari/WebKit, and we think it is a useful feature. We would like to >>> implement it at some point. I can't give a specific timeline. >>> >> >> I am not sure if it is straightforward to implement in Opera, but this >> applies to us as well. >> >> >> -- >> Anne van Kesteren >> http://annevankesteren.nl/ >> >> >
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