Re: TAG Comment on

Noah - the TAG's comment has been added to the comment tracking document 
for this LC:

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/WebStorage-Comments-LC-25Oct2011#LC-2

If anyone wants to propose extensions or changes to Web Storage, please 
use [Bugzilla] and please feel free to contribute to the group's 
[Database] wiki e.g. to clarify the relationship between Web Storage and 
HTML5's AppCache.

If you have any additional feedback, please reply by November 25, the 
day the CfC to publish a Candidate Recommendation of Web Storage ends [CfC].

-Art Barstow

[Bugzilla] 
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/describecomponents.cgi?product=WebAppsWG
[Database] http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/Database
[CfC] 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/0998.html

On 11/15/11 5:05 PM, ext Noah Mendelsohn wrote:
> This is a comment from the W3C Technical Architecture Group on the 
> last call working draft: "Web Storage" [1].
>
> The HTML5 Application Cache (AppCache) [2] and Local Storage [1] both 
> provide client-side storage that can be used by Web Applications. 
> Although the interfaces are different (AppCache has an HTML interface 
> while Local Storage has a JavaScript API), and they do seem to have 
> been designed with different use cases in mind, they provide somewhat 
> related facilities: both cause persistent storage for an application 
> to be created, accessed and managed locally at the client. If, for 
> example, the keys in Local Storage were interpreted as URIs then Local 
> Storage could be used to store manifest files and Web Applications 
> could be written to look transparently for manifest files in either 
> the AppCache or in Local Storage. One might also envision common 
> facilities for querying the size of or releasing all of the local 
> storage for a given application.
>
> At the Offline Web Applications Workshop on Nov 5, 2011 [3] there was 
> a request for a JavaScript API for AppCache and talk about 
> coordinating AppCache and Local Storage.
>
> The TAG believes it is important to consider more carefully the 
> potential advantages of providing a single facility to cover the use 
> cases, of perhaps modularizing the architecture so that some parts are 
> shared, or if separate facilities are indeed the best design, 
> providing common data access and manipulation APIs. If further careful 
> analysis suggests that no such integration is practical, then, at a 
> minimum, each specification should discuss how it is positioned with 
> respect to the other.
>
> Noah Mendelsohn
> For the: W3C Technical Architecture Group
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-webstorage-20111025/
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/offline.html#appcache
> [3] http://www.w3.org/2011/web-apps-ws/
>

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