- From: Jeremy Orlow <jorlow@google.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:25:48 -0700
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Jeremy Orlow wrote: > > > > I created a page that sets a variable in sessionStorage, then I > > navigated to a different domain, then I went back to the page and > > checked if the variable was still set. In Safari 4 (beta) it is. In > > IE8 it isn't. The spec is not terribly clear: "When a top-level browsing > > context is destroyed (and therefore permanently inaccessible to the > > user) the data stored in its session storage areas can be discarded with > > it, as the API described in this specification provides no way for that > > data to ever be subsequently retrieved." > > > > Can anyone explain what's intended here? If not, can the spec make it > > more clear? > > IE8 is buggy according to the text you quoted. I don't understand why the > text is unclear. Does the definition of "browsing context" not leave this > unambiguous? > My mistake. Browsing context does make this clear. Sorry! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20090403/d4762ae1/attachment.htm>
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