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Bug 18936 - Allowing developers to set an expire time like it is currently with cookies would be nice.
Summary: Allowing developers to set an expire time like it is currently with cookies w...
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: 2012-09-20 15:54 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-10-10 02:26 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-09-20 15:54:39 UTC 
Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Allowing developers to set an expire time like it is currently with cookies
would be nice.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-10-10 02:26:37 UTC 
While I agree, the last time I tried adding features to Web Storage 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.