- From: Joćo Eiras <joao-c-eiras@telecom.pt>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:47:29 +0000
- To: public-webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Thursday 27 January 2011 20:39:50 you wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck@visc.us<mailto: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<mailto: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. > UTF16 represents the character table user agents use when displaying a buffer of text, because nothing prevents you from doing: # localStorage.setItem('foobar', "\0\xff\ufeff"); # alert(escape(localStorage.getItem('foobar'))); Works in Opera at least, including in web sql dbs.
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