- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:58:37 -0400
Jens Alfke wrote: > Local storage is a significant change from the browser's current data > model, and I think that (no offense) browser developers are not used to > taking care of user-critical data for longer than the duration of a DOM > tree or POST request. It's a change in perspective. Coming as I do from > a client-software world, it's actually an eye-opener to me that this is > even controversial. It's controversial because, no offense, browser developers don't trust the website author, nor should the users. At least to a first approximation. This is a critical difference from client software, for better or worse. We could restrict local storage to explicitly trusted sites and then not treat it as cookies; would that be preferable? It might be. Alternately, it could be treated like cookies except for explicitly trusted sites... or something. -Boris
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