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Bug 24640 - Storage mutex text does not describe what any major UA does or plans to do
Summary: Storage mutex text does not describe what any major UA does or plans to do
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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
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Reported: 2014-02-13 00:37 UTC by James Robinson
Modified: 2014-02-21 22:18 UTC (History)
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Description James Robinson 2014-02-13 00:37:23 UTC 
This section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/webappapis.html#storage-mutex does not reflect what any major UA implements or plans to implement in the near term (please correct me if I'm mistaken).  It's marked as optional, so the only purpose this text serves is to confuse readers of the spec who think that it might have some bearing on behavior.

The text should either be removed or replaced with something that reflects reality.
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-02-14 21:55:09 UTC 
I'll add some much clearer text explaining that browsers have opted not to implement this for now but encouraging browsers to do so nonetheless.
Comment 2 contributor 2014-02-21 22:18:17 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8503.
Check-in comment: Add a note pointing out that browsers haven't implemented the storage mutex.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8502&to=8503