Re: [Bug 12111] New: spec for Storage object getItem(key) method does not match implementation behavior

My take on the comments is that most commentors prefer the spec to be 
changed as PLH suggested in comment #5:

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12111#c5

Hixie - are you willing to change the spec accordingly?

-AB

On Jun/8/2011 7:57 AM, ext Arthur Barstow wrote:
> There are now 11 comments on Web Storage Bug 12111, the last remaining 
> bug before moving this spec back to Last Call:
>
>   http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12111
>
> If anyone has additional comments, please add them to the bug before 
> the end of this week.
>
> I would like to get consensus on this bug soon and would prefer we do 
> so via e-mail and not have to start some type of poll/survey.
>
> -Thanks, AB
>
> On Feb/17/2011 10:17 AM, ext bugzilla@jessica.w3.org wrote:
>> http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12111
>>
>>             Summary: spec for Storage object getItem(key) method does 
>> not
>>                      match implementation behavior
>>             Product: WebAppsWG
>>             Version: unspecified
>>            Platform: PC
>>          OS/Version: All
>>              Status: NEW
>>            Severity: normal
>>            Priority: P2
>>           Component: Web Storage (editor: Ian Hickson)
>>          AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
>>          ReportedBy: mike@w3.org
>>           QAContact: member-webapi-cvs@w3.org
>>                  CC: ian@hixie.ch, mike@w3.org, public-webapps@w3.org
>>
>>
>> http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/#dom-storage-getitem says that "The
>> getItem(key) method must return a structured clone of the current value
>> associated with the given key." but all browsers I've tested return a 
>> string
>> representation of the value instead.
>>
>

Received on Friday, 10 June 2011 16:21:44 UTC