Re: [IndexedDB] Granting storage quotas

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Shawn Wilsher <sdwilsh@mozilla.com> wrote:

>  On 4/23/2010 7:39 AM, Nikunj Mehta wrote:
>
>> Could we create an additional optional parameter for an open request with
>> the type of permanence required? Or is it not a good idea?
>>
> I haven't talked to anyone at Mozilla that thinks that having permanent and
> non-permanent-but-possibly-long-lasting data to be a good idea.  There does
> seem to be support for a session-only version of indexedDB.
>

What then do people at Mozilla propose for use cases like flickr/picasa
wanting to cache files on the hard disk iff there's plenty of space to do
so, but making sure that said caches are not a burden if that users hard
disk later fills up?

J