Re: How many ways to save store app data?

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but the
http://www.html5rocks.com/ site provides a developer facing view of these
things.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
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> Louis-rémi's thread [1] on AppCache led to discussions about other storage
> related APIs including DataCache, Google Gears, IDB and the File * APIs.
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> Are there are any good resources that describe the various storage APIs
> (from the app developer's perspective) and compare their main properties
> such as: primary Use Cases addressed, strengths, weaknesses, implementation
> and deployment status, performance characterizations, security concerns,
> features planed for next version, etc.? The APIs of interest include: HTML5
> AppCache, DataCache, File * APIs, Google Gears, Indexed Database, Web
> Storage, and Web SQL Database.
>
> In the absence of such resource(s), would anyone be interested in leading,
> or contributing to, an informative document like this?
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> WebApps does have a related wiki document that was created primarily to
> rationalize the start of the IDB spec vis-à-vis Web SQL Database. This
> document hasn't been touched in over a year and probably needs updating:


>   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/Database
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> -Art Barstow
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> [1]
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011JanMar/1043.html
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