- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:44:34 -0400
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Schuyler Duveen<whatwg at graffitiweb.org> wrote: > 1. To run Doom requiring 500M of localStorage sounds like an > 'application'--both users and developers currently have the expectation > that users have to approve something like that before being installed to > their computers to consume possibly valuable resources. ?A preliminary > prompt to the user sounds reasonable and expected here. I expect 500 MB will require a prompt by anyone's standards, yes, unless maybe the user has a terabyte of free disk space. > 3. If the developer is presented with an unprompted option to store data > ?permanently or just have it 'cached'--I'm not sure why the developer > (both the nefarious and the good) would ever opt for the only-cached > version. For the same reason developers write files in /tmp. > In concluding, many thanks to all those that are working on HTML5 (esp. > the browser vendors). ?It's an exciting time to be a web developer. Indeed!
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