- From: Brady Eidson <beidson@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:11:28 -0700
On Apr 7, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Ian Fette (????????) wrote: > > > I strongly share Jonas' concern that we'd tell web applications that > we're storing there data when we already know we're going to dump it > later. For 3 and 4 both, we're basically lying to the application > and therefore the user. Imagine a scenario where a user has no > network connection and unknowingly left their browser in private > browsing mode. Email, documents, financial transactions, etc could > all be "saved" locally then later thrown away before they've had a > chance to sync to a server. > > The same argument could be made for retaining cookies set during > private browsing ;-) I disagree, as cookies are already specified to be of unspecified persistence. I believe a user agent can - at any time - prune cookies from it's cookie store and not be in violation of the cookies spec. ~Brady -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20090407/582d4fcd/attachment.htm>
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