- From: Peter Beverloo <peter@lvp-media.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 21:30:17 +0200
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 15:01, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman at disruptive-innovations.com> wrote: > > Hi there, > > I noticed the Application Cache does not allow to remove > a single cached web application from the cache. Is that on > purpose? > I am under the impression the cache is here more an offline > storage for webapps than a normal cache, and that in the long > run browsers will have to implement an "Offline Web Apps" manager. > Since the user is supposedly already provided with a dialog > asking permission to make a webapp available offline, it makes > sense to give him/her a way to remove a single application from > the cache. > > </Daniel> Section 6.6.7 talks about expiration of cached data [1], but also includes a few notes about removing items from the store. It specifically states that user-agents could have a "delete site-specific data" feature which also covers removing application caches, but also hints towards a feature that removes caches on request of the user. The API does not state a way allowing an application to remove itself from the cache, which could be desirable for web authors. If there's interest for such an addition I'm willing to make a proposal, as it isn't hard to think about use-cases for such a feature. Regards, Peter Beverloo [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/offline.html#expiring-application-caches
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