- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:13:32 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Nikunj Mehta <nikunj.mehta@oracle.com>
- Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Nikunj Mehta wrote: > > Can someone state the various requirements for Web Storage? I did not > find them enunciated anywhere. There's only one requirement that I know of: * Allow Web sites to store structured data on the client. There are many use cases, e.g. Google is interested in this to enable its applications to be taken offline. We recently released offline GMail using this SQL backend; one could easily imagine other applications like Calendar, Reader, Docs&Spreadsheets, etc, supporting offline mode. A while back we released a demo of Reader using Gears' SQL database. But we would rather use a standard API than rely on Gears. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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