W3C home > Mailing lists > Public > public-webapps@w3.org > October to December 2012

Re: Two years on and still no sensible web storage solutions exist

From: Todd Blanchard <toddvblanchard@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:19:27 -0800
Cc: Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>, Andrew Wilson <atwilson@google.com>, Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-Id: <6BEEECF1-BC5A-4EB2-90B2-14999297F7DB@gmail.com>
To: Florian Bösch <pyalot@gmail.com> 

On Nov 12, 2012, at 4:43 AM, Florian Bösch wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Todd Blanchard <toddvblanchard@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wondering what is wrong with the blob type in SQLite?
> A couple of things
> 1) Array buffers can't be passed to websql

Could be fixed.

> 2) websql is subject to the hard quota (5mb) and I'm talking about gigabytes of data

Gigabytes of data?  Why would one subject WebSQL to a hard quote of 5M and think using gigabytes of user disk space in a different scenario is OK?  Something seems out of balance here.  Why limit one but not the other?
Received on Monday, 12 November 2012 18:19:57 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.1 : Tuesday, 26 March 2013 18:49:56 GMT