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Bug 14323 - This API could easily be used by XForms implementations if protocols such as "localstorage://" could also be specified. Thanks! Alain Couthures agenceXML Invited Expert in Forms Work Group
Summary: This API could easily be used by XForms implementations if protocols such as ...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Storage (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-09-28 06:55 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-10-04 07:19 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-09-28 06:55:10 UTC 
Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-webstorage-20110901/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
This API could easily be used by XForms implementations if protocols such as
"localstorage://" could also be specified.

Thanks!

Alain Couthures
agenceXML
Invited Expert in Forms Work Group

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-02 16:41:12 UTC 
I don't understand. Can you elaborate?
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-03 23:44:20 UTC 
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: see comment 1
Comment 3 acouthur 2011-10-04 07:19:11 UTC 
Hello,

Webstorage is very interesting for XForms authors and, for XForms implementations written in Javascript, the Webstorage API can be used, without the author to have to write Javascript instructions.

XForms specifications already allow to use "file://", in submissions for example, to access files on local disks.

Defining, for example, "localstorage://" or "sessionstorage://" would avoid different names for different implementations.

This is not a proposed modification for the WebStorage specifications but an extension allowing to access such storages with an URL. Browsers could even display storages this way.

Thanks!

Alain Couthures