- From: Schuyler Duveen <whatwg@graffitiweb.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:53:39 -0400
Aryeh Gregor wrote: > 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. If it's user-specific, then why not just use sessionStorage? If it's non-user specific (e.g. defaults) or cachable user-data, why not have it cached with normal HTTP as a file, with an XHR (with allow caching headers)? cheers, Schuyler >> 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! >
Received on Thursday, 27 August 2009 08:53:39 UTC