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Bug 13020 - No user agent will implement the storage mutex so this passage does not reflect reality
Summary: No user agent will implement the storage mutex so this passage does not refle...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Storage (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P2 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: 2011-06-22 22:28 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 21:41 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-06-22 22:28:49 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dom.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#sandboxCookies
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#sandboxCookies

Comment:
No user agent will implement the storage mutex so this passage does not
reflect reality

Posted from: 2620:0:1000:fd28:129a:ddff:feb5:9795
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.100 Safari/534.30
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-06-24 18:55:55 UTC 
No UA? Or no current UA?

In particular, last I heard Mozilla was planning on implementing it because they considered the perf implications to be less bad than letting sites corrupt themselves.
Comment 2 Robert O'Callahan (Mozilla) 2011-06-24 22:31:48 UTC 
We're going to make a decision about this fairly soon.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-06-30 18:35:07 UTC 
(I'm leaning towards changing the spec to basically make the storage mutex optional to implement, with a big scary warning about how not implementing it will lead to sites corrupting themselves.)
Comment 4 contributor 2011-08-04 21:41:54 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6368.
Check-in comment: Allow UAs to opt out of the storage mutex and corrupt data instead of being slow.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6367&to=6368