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

[Darin Adler]

On May 7, 2009, at 8:49 PM, Jeremy Orlow wrote:

> One more question: are there any use cases where setGroupName could  
> occur after window.localStorage() had been called?

I don’t know. I don’t think it’s something we can support. It’s  
possible we can change setGroupName to have no effect once a WebView  
has been “used” without breaking Mac OS X applications.

> If so, this seems like it could be a problem since a Storage object  
> is only created on the first call to DOMWindow::localStorage() and  
> then it's cached as a member variable in DOMWindow.  This would mean  
> that any page that calls window.localStorage() before setGroupName  
> is called would not be using the same localStorageArea as a page  
> that calls setGroupName first.

Yes, that could be a bug. Probably no real world cases of it.

> Also, is there any significance to setGroupName being reset to  
> nothing during Page's destructor?

I think it’s a way to share cleanup code.

     -- Darin