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Bug 11589 - It is said that "Values can be any data type supported by the structured clone algorithm", but the algorithm is not described. In fact is it deeply buried in the HTML5 specification, open to fuzzy interpretations. Values are a fundamental part of any data
Summary: It is said that "Values can be any data type supported by the structured clon...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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: 2010-12-22 15:07 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-01-11 19:57 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-12-22 15:07:53 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#top

Comment:
It is said that "Values can be any data type supported by the structured clone
algorithm", but the algorithm is not described. In fact is it deeply buried in
the HTML5 specification, open to fuzzy interpretations. Values are a
fundamental part of any database, this should deserve a clear description.

Posted from: 93.246.2.141
Comment 1 contributor 2011-01-11 19:57:16 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5770.
Check-in comment: Add references to HTML spec since structured clone is defined there.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5769&to=5770
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-01-11 19:57:23 UTC 
Web Storage and HTML are the same spec: http://whatwg.org/C

They're just split out for W3C editorial purposes.

Anyway, I've added references to the HTML spec from the Web Storage spec to resolve this.


> open to fuzzy interpretations

What is fuzzy about the structured clone spec? It should be pretty specific.