[whatwg] Asynchronous database API feedback

[Brady Eidson]

On Dec 11, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Aaron Boodman wrote:

> How does the globalStorage implementation deal with this problem? It
> has a synchronous storage API. True it is probably designed for
> smaller amounts of data, but there's nothing preventing an author from
> using it for large amounts (is there?). Also, some of the concerns
> raised here have nothing to do with the amount of data stored. Or does
> globalStorage not guarantee that data is written when the setter
> returns?

I see nothing in the globalStorage spec that suggests that the data  
must be on the disk by the time setItem() returns, and I think it  
would be crazy for a user agent to voluntarily store the data out to  
disk before returning from the method.

~Brady