- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:43:38 -0700
- To: Kinuko Yasuda <kinuko@chromium.org>
- Cc: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Kinuko Yasuda <kinuko@chromium.org> wrote: > Just to confirm: Yes the interfaces are vendor prefixed (WebKit), and > WebSQL, AppCache, IDB are treated as temporary in the current chromium > implementation. > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> wrote: >> >> Any ideas on how to express temp v. Perm to IndexedDB? > > IIRC there's been a proposal to have a way to hint that an IndexedDB > ObjectStore is 'evictable' or not: > http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11350 > Though it seems to be put off until later (version 2), I was assuming that > once we have the 'evictable' option it would indicate the data's Temp/Perm > attribute. > Other storage APIs do not have a way to express temp/perm either. > Chromium's current policy is defaulting to conservative or less > astonishment to the users (in our belief), so that they won't see unexpected > prompts or unknown data pressing their disk space. And instead getting unexpected data loss :) / Jonas
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