- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:10:22 +0200
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:59:31 +0200, Aaron Boodman <aa at google.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Jeremy Orlow<jorlow at chromium.org> wrote: >> I still don't understand what use local storage has outside of 'cloud >> storage'. Even in the extensions use case (which I think is out of >> scope for this spec), there's no reason you can't sync user preferences >> and such to the cloud. > > The use case, though, is local storage, not cloud storage. Requiring > cloud storage here kind of defeats the purpose and makes the API a lot > harder to use. Indeed. It would be nice to be able to write simple applications that do not require the cloud at all and basically consist of a set of static documents distributed over HTTP. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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