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@@ -38635,14 +38635,19 @@ user reload must be equivalent to .reload()
   method must atomically cause the list associated with the object to
   be emptied of all key/value pairs.</p>
 
-  <p>When the <code title=dom-Storage-setItem><a href=#dom-storage-setitem>setItem()</a></code>,
-  <code title=dom-Storage-removeItem><a href=#dom-storage-removeitem>removeItem()</a></code>, and <code title=dom-Storage-clear><a href=#dom-storage-clear>clear()</a></code> methods are invoked, events
+  <p class=note>When the <code title=dom-Storage-setItem><a href=#dom-storage-setitem>setItem()</a></code>, <code title=dom-Storage-removeItem><a href=#dom-storage-removeitem>removeItem()</a></code>, and <code title=dom-Storage-clear><a href=#dom-storage-clear>clear()</a></code> methods are invoked, events
   are fired on other <code><a href=#htmldocument>HTMLDocument</a></code> objects that can access
   the newly stored or removed data, as defined in the sections on the
   <code title=dom-sessionStorage><a href=#dom-sessionstorage>sessionStorage</a></code> and <code title=dom-localStorage><a href=#dom-localstorage>localStorage</a></code> attributes.</p> <!--
   not normative, see the sections below for the normative statement
   -->
 
+  <p class=note>This specification does not require that the above
+  methods wait until the data has been physically written to
+  disk. Only consistency in what different scripts accessing the same
+  underlying list of key/value pairs see is required.</p>
+
+
 
   <h5 id=the-sessionstorage-attribute><span class=secno>5.10.1.3 </span>The <code title=dom-sessionStorage><a href=#dom-sessionstorage>sessionStorage</a></code> attribute</h5>
 
@@ -54965,8 +54970,8 @@ interface <dfn id=timeouthandler>TimeoutHandler</dfn> {
   Terrence Wood, Thomas Broyer, Thomas O'Connor, Tim Altman, Tim
   Johansson, Tommy Thorsen, Travis Leithead, Tyler Close, Vladimir
   Vuki&#263;evi&#263;, Wakaba, Wayne Pollock, Wellington Fernando
-  de Macedo, William Swanson, Wolfram Kriesing, Yi-An Huang, and
-  &Oslash;istein E. Andersen, for their useful and substantial
+  de Macedo, William Swanson, Wolfram Kriesing, Yi-An Huang, Zhenbin
+  Xu, and &Oslash;istein E. Andersen, for their useful and substantial
   comments.</p>
 
   <p>Thanks also to everyone who has ever posted about HTML5 to their

diff --git a/source b/source
@@ -43995,8 +43995,9 @@ user reload must be equivalent to .reload()
   method must atomically cause the list associated with the object to
   be emptied of all key/value pairs.</p>
 
-  <p>When the <code title="dom-Storage-setItem">setItem()</code>,
-  <code title="dom-Storage-removeItem">removeItem()</code>, and <code
+  <p class="note">When the <code
+  title="dom-Storage-setItem">setItem()</code>, <code
+  title="dom-Storage-removeItem">removeItem()</code>, and <code
   title="dom-Storage-clear">clear()</code> methods are invoked, events
   are fired on other <code>HTMLDocument</code> objects that can access
   the newly stored or removed data, as defined in the sections on the
@@ -44005,6 +44006,12 @@ user reload must be equivalent to .reload()
   not normative, see the sections below for the normative statement
   -->
 
+  <p class="note">This specification does not require that the above
+  methods wait until the data has been physically written to
+  disk. Only consistency in what different scripts accessing the same
+  underlying list of key/value pairs see is required.</p>
+
+
 
   <h5>The <code title="dom-sessionStorage">sessionStorage</code> attribute</h5>
 
@@ -60075,8 +60082,8 @@ interface <dfn>TimeoutHandler</dfn> {
   Terrence Wood, Thomas Broyer, Thomas O'Connor, Tim Altman, Tim
   Johansson, Tommy Thorsen, Travis Leithead, Tyler Close, Vladimir
   Vuki&#x0107;evi&#x0107;, Wakaba, Wayne Pollock, Wellington Fernando
-  de Macedo, William Swanson, Wolfram Kriesing, Yi-An Huang, and
-  &Oslash;istein E. Andersen, for their useful and substantial
+  de Macedo, William Swanson, Wolfram Kriesing, Yi-An Huang, Zhenbin
+  Xu, and &Oslash;istein E. Andersen, for their useful and substantial
   comments.</p>
 
   <p>Thanks also to everyone who has ever posted about HTML5 to their