- From: Janusz Majnert <j.majnert@samsung.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:58:24 +0100
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 13.03.2015 13:50, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > A big gap with native is dependable storage for applications. I > started sketching the problem space on this wiki page: > > https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Storage > > Feedback I got is that having some kind of allotted quota is useful > for applications. That way they know how much they can put away. > However, this clashes a bit with offering something that is > competitive with native. > > We can't really ask the user to divide up their storage. And yet when > the user asks an application to store e.g. a whole bunch of music > offline we don't really want the user agent to get in the way if the > user already granted persistence. > The real question is why having a quota is useful? Native apps are not controlled when it comes to storing data and nobody complains. I think proper solution would be not to restrict the available space, but provide GUI for users to: * see how much space an app uses (if it exceeds some preset amount) * inspect the files in platform's file explorer Regards, -- Janusz Majnert Senior Software Engineer Samsung R&D Institute Poland Samsung Electronics
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