Re: TAG Comment on

Could you quantify "widely"?

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com> wrote:

> These APIs are quite widely used on the web.  It seems unlikely that
> we'll be able to delete either of them in favor of a single facility.
>
> Adam
>
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> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
> wrote:
> > This is a comment from the W3C Technical Architecture Group on the last
> call
> > working draft: "Web Storage" [1].
> >
> > The HTML5 Application Cache (AppCache) [2] and Local Storage [1] both
> > provide client-side storage that can be used by Web Applications.
> Although
> > the interfaces are different (AppCache has an HTML interface while Local
> > Storage has a JavaScript API), and they do seem to have been designed
> with
> > different use cases in mind, they provide somewhat related facilities:
> both
> > cause persistent storage for an application to be created, accessed and
> > managed locally at the client. If, for example, the keys in Local Storage
> > were interpreted as URIs then Local Storage could be used to store
> manifest
> > files and Web Applications could be written to look transparently for
> > manifest files in either the AppCache or in Local Storage. One might also
> > envision common facilities for querying the size of or releasing all of
> the
> > local storage for a given application.
> >
> > At the Offline Web Applications Workshop on Nov 5, 2011 [3] there was a
> > request for a JavaScript API for AppCache and talk about coordinating
> > AppCache and Local Storage.
> >
> > The TAG believes it is important to consider more carefully the potential
> > advantages of providing a single facility to cover the use cases, of
> perhaps
> > modularizing the architecture so that some parts are shared, or if
> separate
> > facilities are indeed the best design, providing common data access and
> > manipulation APIs. If further careful analysis suggests that no such
> > integration is practical, then, at a minimum, each specification should
> > discuss how it is positioned with respect to the other.
> >
> > Noah Mendelsohn
> > For the: W3C Technical Architecture Group
> >
> > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-webstorage-20111025/
> > [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/offline.html#appcache
> > [3] http://www.w3.org/2011/web-apps-ws/
> >
> >
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