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Re:Javascript, locking and sound by ender7 on Saturday July 25, 2015 @07:17PM (#9949423)
Sometimes rants like this are biting indictments of the state of things, but sometimes they're just a bit of laziness.

The web is a constantly evolving platform. There used to be many things that were impossible to achieve on the web; that number is less now than it used to be thanks to the addition of new APIs (LocalStorage among them), but it's not yet zero. In particular, we don't yet have an API to achieve what jwz wants to do. LocalStorage was clearly not designed with this use case in mind; acting surprised when your awful hack turns out to be unreliable seems a bit disingenuous.

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Re:Javascript, locking and sound by vezzy-fnord on Saturday July 25, 2015 @07:20PM (#9949431)
His point is that these are pretty much Operating System 101 features that the browser doesn't supply since its intended purposes were quite orthogonal, though it has since painfully evolved into ostensibly usurping the host OS.
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