Re: [chromium-html5] LocalStorage inside Worker

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck@visc.us> wrote:

> FWIW: websql is mostly abandoned, though super handy on ios mobile devices.
>

It's been around for a while in everything other than FF and IE.


> IndexedDB is live in Chrome, Firefox and the MS interop team released a
> prototype for IE.
>

For the record, we haven't shipped it to stable yet, though we do have a
version in the dev channel.  We're hoping to ship before long though (once
we get the API back up to date).


> Moz and webkit both just implement IDB atop of their internal sqlite
> processes. That is, thy create a simple websql schema.
>

For now, yes.  It's actually pretty fast though!


On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Joćo Eiras <joao-c-eiras@telecom.pt>
 wrote:

>
> > Afaik, websql does not support blobs.
> >
>
> If stored as strings, it does. sqlite treats TEXT as an opaque buffer.
>

Not all binary can be expressed at UTF16.  Note that this is also a
limitation of LocalStorage as well.

J

Received on Thursday, 27 January 2011 20:40:41 UTC