Increasing Client-side Storage

2012-11-08 Thread Nukeface
So i read the Client-side Storage introduction article. I do have a question. The company I'm doing my work experience is having trouble with the Client-side storage of all browsers as the size limits are met. We're developing an app which requires offline capability and uses lots and lots of

Re: Increasing Client-side Storage

2012-11-08 Thread Joseph Lust
Sounds like a likely browser defect. Limit of 5MB per app per browser. According to the HTML5 spechttp://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webstorage-20091222/#the-storage-interface, this limit can be increased by the user when needed; however, only a few browsers support this So it really depends on

Re: Increasing Client-side Storage

2012-11-08 Thread Paul Stockley
Actually the limit is 2500 characters in many browsers as they store the data in mult-byte format. Unless the browser supports it, there is no way of increasing this. What browser/versions are you using? On Thursday, November 8, 2012 12:32:04 PM UTC-5, Joseph Lust wrote: Sounds like a likely

Re: Increasing Client-side Storage

2012-11-08 Thread Joseph Lust
I had been using FF last year, though I was only storing about 250K of serialized character data. Perhaps take a look at the source of the Kindle Chrome app. It stores the book content offline. They must handle this somehow. Sincerely, Joseph -- You received this message because you are

Re: Increasing Client-side Storage

2012-11-08 Thread alucard
If you are developing for mobile devices you could try with Phonegaphttp://phonegap.com/ (aka Apache Cordova http://incubator.apache.org/cordova/). They have a filehttp://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.2.0/cordova_file_file.md.html#Fileand a

Re: Increasing Client-side Storage

2012-11-08 Thread Oliver Krylow
Currently the only browser I know of that allows the user to set the size of local storage is safari . But in general I do not recommend using local storage for data heavy storing. Think of it rather as advanced cookies. The best use case is if you want to serialize the state of your views to