Re: TAG Comment on

On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:30:15 -0500, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> Yes, if you configure your browser to do so, you'll be assaulted with  
> requests for a "test db" from many Web sites that use common frameworks.
>
> I don't think that this should count as "use."
>
> I do think now is precisely the time to be asking this kind of question;  
> these features are NOT yet used at *Web* scale -- they're used by people  
> willing to live on the bleeding edge, and therefore willing to accept  
> risk of change.

A quick search of Google code [1], Github [2][3], and Bitbucket [4][5]  
would indicate otherwise, IMO. For example, the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor  
that is included in every Wordpress installation (currently estimated at  
65,787,814 sites [6]) uses localStorage for auto-saving blog posts (not  
exactly bleeding-edge stuff). TinyMCE also boasts some of the most  
successful and popular sites on the web as users [7]. And that's just one  
single project from the many thousands of open source projects hosted by  
Google Code, Bitbucket or Github.

[1]  
http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=%5Blocal%7Csession%5DStorage%20lang:%5Ejavascript$&type=cs
[2]  
https://github.com/search?type=Everything&language=JavaScript&q=localStorage
[3]  
https://github.com/search?type=Everything&language=JavaScript&q=sessionStorage
[4]  
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Abitbucket.org%20localStorage
[5]  
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Abitbucket.org%20sessionStorage
[6] http://en.wordpress.com/stats/
[7] http://www.tinymce.com/enterprise/using.php

Regards,

-- 
Mike Taylor
Opera Software

Received on Monday, 21 November 2011 03:28:58 UTC