On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > On Dec 2, 2009, at 8:14 PM, Darin Fisher wrote: > > What about Maciej's comment. JS strings are often use to store binary > > values. Obviously, if people stick to octets, then it should be fine, > > but perhaps some folks leverage all 16 bits? > > I think some people do use JavaScript strings this way, though not > necessarily with LocalStorage. This kind of use will probably become > obsolete when we add a proper way to store binary data from the > platform. > > Most Web-related APIs are fully accepting of JavaScript strings that are > not proper UTF-16. I don't see a strong reason to make LocalStorage an > exception.
I recommend raising these points on: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8425 -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
