Re: [whatwg] Web Storage: apparent contradiction in spec

2009-08-26 Thread Aaron Whyte
As an offline cloud-app developer, I've got these three kinds of data:1) Data from the cloud that's cached locally on a best-effort basis, that can be thrown out if we start running out of space. 2) Data from the cloud that the app needs in order to keep functioning at all. 3) Locally created data

Re: [whatwg] In AppCache web apps, images from unpredictable domains won't load

2009-07-23 Thread Aaron Whyte
That sounds perfect, thanks. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: snip I've made it so that you can specify * in the online whitelist section to basically open it up to anything. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL

[whatwg] syncing attachments to an offline-capable client?

2009-07-22 Thread Aaron Whyte
Forums, bug trackers, mail programs, photo apps, etc. all have allow users to download attachments or view them inline in the browser. An offline-capable app should be able to sync attachments down to the browser, as data. There may be thousands of such resources for one app, added and removed

[whatwg] AppCache can't serve different contents for different users at the same URL

2009-07-14 Thread Aaron Whyte
Most apps provide different contents for the same uncacheable main-page URL, depending on the identity of the user, which is typically stored in a cookie and read by the server. However, the HTML5 AppCache spec doesn't allow cookies to influence the choice of AppCaches or the contents of a

[whatwg] In AppCache web apps, images from unpredictable domains won't load

2009-07-06 Thread Aaron Whyte
When a page is loaded from an AppCache, even when online, external resources such as images will not be loaded at all. If foo.com has an image img src=http://bar.com/img.png; /, then according to the steps in

Re: [whatwg] In AppCache web apps, images from unpredictable domains won't load

2009-07-06 Thread Aaron Whyte
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: The workaround is for the gmail to download the images to gmails servers and then serve them from a google domain. This isn't just an email problem. It'll also affect RSS readers, document editors, blogging tools, and