[Sigia-l] Persistence

[James Aylett]

David Malouf wrote:
> HOw is Mozilla doing something "special" in their browser any
> different than MS creating a XAML browser or Adobe creating a Flash
> browser.  

I'd hope they'll base it on the WHAT-WG work:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#storage.

> Shoot, if I wanted to today, I could create add-ons in separate code
> for both IE and Mozilla that create this functionality and be done
> with it.  

Which is exactly what some Javascript libraries have done, with the aim to move to standardised interfaces as they appear (so that client code won't need to change with future versions, just the library support).
 
> The issue is that there is nothing in the DOM.

The WHAT-WG proposal seems to address this.
 
James

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