[webkit-dev] PageGroups (and the localStorage being stored in it)

[Jeremy Orlow]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:

> On May 7, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Jeremy Orlow wrote:
>
>  I'm continuing to work on https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25376 and
>> noticed that the map of origins to localStorageAreas is owned by the
>> PageGroup class.  I'm having a bit of trouble understanding what exactly
>> page groups are used for.
>>
>
> PageGroup exists so you can have multiple web pages in a single application
> that share state, including frame namespace, such as the multiple windows
> and tabs in Safari.
>
> Separate page groups allow other web views to be separate, allowing the
> same application to use WebKit for things that should be isolated from web
> browsing; for example Safari on Windows uses web views for things like
> Preferences and text input.
>
> This is exposed as part of the WebKit API on Mac OS X, with the
> setGroupName: method.
>
> It may be a useless concept for Chromium but it’s critical on Mac OS X.


Didn't mean to imply they were useless, at all.  Was just trying to
understand their use.

Thanks!
J
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