Shahyar just wrote a slimmed down version of Storer, so I think I'll work
on collaborating with him rather than persuing our own solution. No sense
having 3 different plug-ins for doing the same thing.

Ryan


On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote:

> Recently, I decided to clean-up some of the code in MobileFrontend related
> to localStorage. The other mobile devs suggested that I implement a
> generalized solution that could be upstreamed to core. I looked at some 3rd
> party jQuery plug-ins and decided to implement a solution based on jQuery
> Store. I stripped out all the extraneous crap and added support for cookies
> (since localStorage quotas are often rather small for mobile devices) and
> caching. The end result can be seen at:
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131239/
>
> After I checked this in, I was informed that there is already a
> client-side storage plug-in in core: jStorage, as well as another one being
> used by Flow, Storer. Both of these seem a bit like overkill to me and I
> would prefer to implement something simple and light-weight for mobile.
> Also jStorage doesn't support fall-back to cookies.
>
> What are people's opinions on moving forward on this? Should mobile have
> it's own lightweight plug-in, should we modify jStorage in core so that it
> meets our requirements, or should we adopt Storer and push for it to
> replace jStorage in core?
>
> Ryan Kaldari
>
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