- From: Janusz Majnert <j.majnert@samsung.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:25:48 +0100
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 13.03.2015 15:01, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Janusz Majnert <j.majnert@samsung.com> wrote: >> The real question is why having a quota is useful? > > The reason developers want it is to know how much they can download > and store without getting an exception. > Which still doesn't guarantee they won't get an exception if the device runs out of space for whatever reason. > >> Native apps are not >> controlled when it comes to storing data and nobody complains. > > Is there any documentation on how they handle the above scenario? Just > write to disk until you hit failure? I think so. This is certainly the case with desktop apps. I also didn't find any mention of quota in Android download manager docs (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/DownloadManager.html) or in Tizen's Download API (https://developer.tizen.org/dev-guide/2.3.0/org.tizen.mobile.native.apireference/group__CAPI__WEB__DOWNLOAD__MODULE.html) Regards, -- Janusz Majnert Senior Software Engineer Samsung R&D Institute Poland Samsung Electronics
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