Freeze/resume and history state

[dvoytenko]

This is related to the clientId and indexed db storage mentioned in the current draft of the spec. Will it be recommended for a web page to take advantage of the history.state for pause/resume? In all other respects, the history state storage could be a good ephemeral storage mechanism that naturally gets thrown out when a tab is closed. The History API in its current state is not very convenient for something like this, but otherwise this storage seems to fit well?

[dvoytenko]

This mechanism is also somewhat similar to when a web page is reloaded by the browser and auto-restores form fields.