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  36. <PRE>On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Drew Wilson &lt;<A HREF="http://lists.whatwg.org/listinfo.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org">atwilson at google.com</A>&gt; wrote:
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  37. &gt;<i> I've thought about this more, and I'm afraid that if you start making the
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  38. </I>&gt;<i> API cumbersome (forcing only async access) then apps are just going to use
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  39. </I>&gt;<i> document.cookies instead of localStorage. I'd hate to see us radically
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  40. </I>&gt;<i> change the API to support the worker case - I'd rather get rid of
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  41. </I>&gt;<i> localStorage support from workers, or else just enforce a max time that a
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  42. </I>&gt;<i> worker can hold the lock.
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  44. I don't believe that. Adding one async callback is no inconvenience
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  45. compared to the sad farce that is the document.cookie &quot;API&quot;. Also,
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  46. localstorage has many benefits including structured storage and not
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  47. getting sent to the server in every request.
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