- From: Jens Alfke <snej@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:18:57 -0700
I've just noticed an apparent self-contradiction in the Web Storage spec (24 August draft). Section 4.3 states: > Data stored in local storage areas should be considered potentially > user-critical. It is expected that Web applications will use the > local storage areas for storing user-written documents. Section 6.1 states: > User agents should present the persistent storage feature to the > user in a way that does not distinguish them from HTTP session > cookies. These statements are contradictory, because cookies don't store user- critical data such as documents. The user model of cookies is that they're conveniences (at best) for keeping you logged into a site or remembering preferences like font-size, so deleting them is no more than an inconvenience. If local storage is presented to the user as being cookies, then a user may delete it without understanding the consequences. Potential result: "I was having trouble logging into FooDocs.com, so my friend suggested I delete the cookies for that site. After that I could log in, but now the document I was working on this morning has lost all the changes I made! How do I get them back?" I suggest that the sub-section "Treating persistent storage as cookies" of section 6.1 be removed. ?Jens -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20090825/fed8b117/attachment.htm>
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