- From: Jeremy Orlow <jorlow@chromium.org>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:09:04 +0900
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Jens Alfke <snej at google.com> wrote: > > On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Peter Kasting wrote: > > It still seems like you are interpreting this statement as saying that the >> UA must not allow users to keep/clear cookies separately from Local Storage >> data. >> > > Yes; that seemed the most direct interpretation of its language. > > While on the face of it that seems like a possible interpretation, I think >> it's clear that this would be a lousy user experience and detrimental to >> developers as well. Therefore I am convinced that the intent of the >> statement is to say that UAs must give users the same _abilities_ to see and >> clear Local Storage data as they already have with cookies, not that the two >> things should always be lumped together and made indistinguishable. >> > > Then we are in violent agreement :) Good. As a newbie here I was less > inclined to give the spec the benefit of the doubt than you were. > > So do the rest of us agree about what the statement should mean? And if so, > how could it be rephrased to say that more unambiguously? I think Peter's > quote above is a good start. > The fact that we talked about this so long demonstrates how unclear it is. I agree that Peter's reading is one possible interpretation, but I worry that not everyone will read and implement it that way. An extra sentence or two would go a long way. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20090903/1fa0ca84/attachment.htm>
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