Re: How many ways to save store app data?
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: Louis-rémi's thread [1] on AppCache led to discussions about other storage related APIs including DataCache, Google Gears, IDB and the File * APIs. Of note, Google Gears is basically gone (as of Google Chrome 12 and similar): http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/stopping-gears.html
How many ways to save store app data?
Hi All, Louis-rémi's thread [1] on AppCache led to discussions about other storage related APIs including DataCache, Google Gears, IDB and the File * APIs. Are there are any good resources that describe the various storage APIs (from the app developer's perspective) and compare their main properties such as: primary Use Cases addressed, strengths, weaknesses, implementation and deployment status, performance characterizations, security concerns, features planed for next version, etc.? The APIs of interest include: HTML5 AppCache, DataCache, File * APIs, Google Gears, Indexed Database, Web Storage, and Web SQL Database. In the absence of such resource(s), would anyone be interested in leading, or contributing to, an informative document like this? WebApps does have a related wiki document that was created primarily to rationalize the start of the IDB spec vis-à-vis Web SQL Database. This document hasn't been touched in over a year and probably needs updating: http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/Database -Art Barstow [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011JanMar/1043.html
Re: How many ways to save store app data?
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but the http://www.html5rocks.com/ site provides a developer facing view of these things. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.comwrote: Hi All, Louis-rémi's thread [1] on AppCache led to discussions about other storage related APIs including DataCache, Google Gears, IDB and the File * APIs. Are there are any good resources that describe the various storage APIs (from the app developer's perspective) and compare their main properties such as: primary Use Cases addressed, strengths, weaknesses, implementation and deployment status, performance characterizations, security concerns, features planed for next version, etc.? The APIs of interest include: HTML5 AppCache, DataCache, File * APIs, Google Gears, Indexed Database, Web Storage, and Web SQL Database. In the absence of such resource(s), would anyone be interested in leading, or contributing to, an informative document like this? WebApps does have a related wiki document that was created primarily to rationalize the start of the IDB spec vis-à-vis Web SQL Database. This document hasn't been touched in over a year and probably needs updating: http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/Database -Art Barstow [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011JanMar/1043.html
