- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:56:28 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Brady Eidson wrote:
>
> The StorageEvent has almost all the information in it that a script
> would need, except one.
>
> Imagine a multi-frame page where each document is from the same security
> origin. In this case, if one document on the page changes either a
> SessionStorage item or a LocalStorage item, the other documents on the
> page have no way of knowing if the StorageEvent generated is from
> changing SessionStorage or LocalStorage.
>
> One might argue they could compare the changed key/value in the event to
> their SessionStorage and LocalStorage and infer which one generated the
> event, but this is not fool proof. There are a number of situations
> that could arise where a script couldn't infer which Storage object had
> changed.
>
> I propose adding an additional property to the StorageEvent interface:
>
> interface StorageEvent : Event {
> ...
> readonly attribute Storage storageArea;
> ...
> }
>
> The name of the attribute is up in the air, but the point is that the
> object would be either the SessionStorage object or the LocalStorage
> object.
I've tried doing this, though the definition is a bit iffy. Let me know
if I screwed it up too badly...
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