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Bug 18833 - localStorage should be enhanced so that large objects/text can be retrieved asynchronously localStorage(key, callback);
Summary: localStorage should be enhanced so that large objects/text can be retrieved a...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-09-11 03:48 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-10-10 02:27 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-09-11 03:48:35 UTC 
Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
localStorage should be enhanced so that large objects/text can be retrieved
asynchronously 

localStorage(key, callback);

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-10-10 02:27:58 UTC 
While I agree, I actually tried adding this very feature to Web Storage a while back and the browser vendors pretty uniformly told me that they had no interest in adding new features to it and that IndexDB was the way forward.