[whatwg] Web Storage: apparent contradiction in spec

[Michael Nordman]

> My suggestion to have separate 'important' and 'cache' local storage areas
would provide such a mechanism in a standard way.> The first time an app
tried to put stuff in the 'important' area, you'd be asked for approval. And
'important' stores wouldn't be deleted
> without your consent.
I think you just described a way to 'bless' things.


On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Jens Alfke <snej at google.com> wrote:

>
> On Aug 26, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Michael Nordman wrote:
>
>  What seems inevitable are vista-like prompts to allow something (or prods
>> to delete something) seemingly unrelated to a user's interaction with a
>> site... please, oh please, lets avoid making that part of the web platform.
>>
>
> Doesn't Gears already do this? If I do something like enabling local draft
> storage in WordPress, I get a prompt asking me if I want to allow
> myblog.com to store some local data on my disk, and I click OK because
> after all that's what I asked the site to do.


Yes, but we hate those prompts, don't you?


>
>
>  I'm assuming that UA will have out-of-band mechanisms to 'bless' certain
>> sites which should not be subject to automated eviction.
>>
>
> If this is out-of-spec and browser-dependent, there won't be a good way for
> an app to request that blessing; it'll be something the user has to know to
> do, otherwise their data can get lost. That seems dangerous. In most systems
> user data loss is just about the worst-case scenario of what could go wrong,
> and you try to prevent it at all costs.
>

I'd love it if HTML5 took on a standard means of 'blessing' things. Thus far
every time we come even close to the notion of 'installing' something... it
doesn't go well in this forum.


>
> My suggestion to have separate 'important' and 'cache' local storage areas
> would provide such a mechanism in a standard way. The first time an app
> tried to put stuff in the 'important' area, you'd be asked for approval. And
> 'important' stores wouldn't be deleted without your consent.
>

Interesting... I think you just described a way to 'bless' things by
alluding to 'important' repositories and trying to put something in them.
There are probably other ways to express this too that wouldn't involve
altering  the storage APIs... i'd prefer to pursue things in a more modular
fashion... jmho.


>
> —Jens
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