- From: Jeremy Orlow <jorlow@chromium.org>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:41:56 +0900
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:24 AM, timeless <timeless at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Ian Hickson<ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > Upon further consideration I've renamed getStorageUpdates() to > > yieldForStorageUpdates(). > > If getStorageUpdates() actually returned how *many* updates there > were, it could be a vaguely useful name. > > If the answer is 0, then my application knows it doesn't need to try > to figure out how the world changed, right? > I like this idea except for one problem: It doesn't tell whether something got changed without your knowledge. If you call alert, access a plugin, etc it's possible to drop the lock. I think some sort of global counter, variable, etc would be more valuable since it solves both problems. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20090904/78aa34a9/attachment-0001.htm>
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