- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:10:51 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, timeless wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > I've edited the latter text to indicate that the expiration should > > only be done at user option. > > On a device with limited storage, is the user option of having a device > that still boots and operates a sufficient "option"? > > I'm looking at a device which tends to run out of space regularly but > which wants to support web standards. I don't know that that's possible. > If I visit 50 sites and collect junk for all of them, and i have a > screen which can barely show 5 site names + 1 line descriptions for > sites, then i'm not quite sure my user option of being able to > conveniently manage those sites will really exist. On such a device you probably shouldn't be letting all sites store data without the user opting into it. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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