Re: [WSG] HTML5 offline storage question

2010-08-09 Thread Josh Godsiff
I avoid Apple products like the plague, so perhaps I'm missing some info here, but what's wrong with simply getting the user to download the file in the normal fashion? - Josh On 9/8/2010 3:11 PM, Breton Slivka wrote: The iPhone has a 5mb upper limit per page. I think the ipad's limit is

Re: [WSG] HTML5 offline storage question

2010-08-09 Thread David Dorward
On 9 Aug 2010, at 08:59, Josh Godsiff wrote: I avoid Apple products like the plague, so perhaps I'm missing some info here, but what's wrong with simply getting the user to download the file in the normal fashion? Apps are heavily sandboxed and there is no user accessible global file

Re: [WSG] HTML5 offline storage question

2010-08-09 Thread akella
You can store on iPhone with Web Database any amount of data. It will just ask user does he really want to allow this site to use, say, 100mb. My application for the iPhone stores 150mb now. Yuriy akella Artyukh, http://cssing.org.ua On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:03 AM, David Dorward

Re: [WSG] HTML5 offline storage question

2010-08-09 Thread Jody Tate
Asking why not just use the cache is a valid question. In this case, using HTML5 storage to house files doesn't seem to be tapping into all HTML5 storage can do--but it's not violating what storage can do either (so far as I know). HTML5 storage is like cookies: Simply put, it’s a way for web

Re: [WSG] HTML5 offline storage question

2010-08-09 Thread Rob Crowther
Hi Andrew Andrew Harris wrote: Is the offline storage tool in HTML5 designed for this sort of heavy lifting? are there storage limitations? on an iPad? Can you confirm, are you referring to Web Storage[1] or Offline Resources[2]? Web Storage is really just cookies on steroids and probably