- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:29:52 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, zhao Matt wrote: > > I saw HTML5 spec 's > introduction<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/introduction.html#introduction>includes > the following content, "Features that are not currently in this document > that were in the past considered part of HTML5...,, include:... Web > Storage" > > I know "Web Storage" provides ways for web applications to store > key-value data in the browser, effectively replacing cookies, but I am > curious why is the feature removed from HTML5 Spec? or Why can't the > feature be contained in HTML5? thanks. It's historical. The HTML working group at the W3C didn't want it in there, and at the time I was trying to keep the WHATWG spec consistent with the W3C spec so that they had the same content. I've since given up, the WHATWG one is now a superset of the W3C one, but is still just "HTML" things and not anything Web related. There's a separate WHATWG spec that contains everything still, including the HTML stuff and stuff like Web Storage: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/ -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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