On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Mike Beltzner <[email protected]> wrote:
> All we're doing at this point is preventing malicious applications from > eating up disk, really. > Yep, I agree (although that may no longer be true in a few years as web apps grow in power and complexity). > In the world of normal applications, you basically give them arbitrary > permission to use your disk, but the good ones write some requirements ahead > of time like "requires 200 MB free hard drive space" and warn you at install > if you're below that. Can we make the UI more like that, where you make a > single trust decision up front? Yes an app can lie, but normally-installed > apps can lie too. Can we provide enough ranking and feedback somewhere to > make this decision easier on users? For example, "57% of users chose to > install <foo.com>, and gave it an average rating of 2.3 stars." > > > Oooh, web of trust. There are some flaws. :) > > I do think the right answer here is to only get the user involved when the > case seems pathological. Most uses of localStorage will be for "better than > cookies," I suspect. > One case I'm trying to prevent is getting separate requests, at different times, from the same app. You get some up-front query about desktop shortcuts, and then a query five minutes later about using your camera, and then a year later about going over 5 MB of storage, and so on. Sucky. Really all I care about is an up-front "let this do whatever the heck it wants" versus "no thanks". PK --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
