- From: Ian Fette <ifette@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:12:15 -0700
And as of right now, afaict, a user / user agent can prune a database and not be in violation of the database spec :) On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Brady Eidson <beidson at apple.com> wrote: > > 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/a02f8c01/attachment.htm>
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