Re: [WSG] HTML5 offline storage question

2010-08-14 Thread Rob Crowther
Rob Crowther wrote: Or, as you say above, does the user have to visit each page? I'll have some time this afternoon so I'll probably just try it myself :) Just wanted to confirm: I tested this last night in Firefox 4.0 beta - any manifests linked to in pages downloaded by another manifest

Re: [WSG] HTML5 offline storage question

2010-08-13 Thread Rob Crowther
On 13/08/10 05:17, Ryan Seddon wrote: Yeah that is a good point. Although doing so would require the person to visit each page which has it's own manifest before it will be cached. Have you ever tried caching pages which themselves have manifests? If you're referring to the page which

Re: [WSG] HTML5 offline storage question

2010-08-12 Thread Rob Crowther
Ryan Seddon wrote: If you make an update to the manifest file it will re-download every asset listed in the manifest. You can split resources across multiple manifest files, though, as far as I can tell, the you only get one manifest per page. Have you ever tried caching pages which

Re: [WSG] HTML5 offline storage question

2010-08-12 Thread Ryan Seddon
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Rob Crowther robe...@boogdesign.com wrote: You can split resources across multiple manifest files, though, as far as I can tell, the you only get one manifest per page. Yeah that is a good point. Although doing so would require the person to visit each page

Re: [WSG] HTML5 offline storage question

2010-08-10 Thread Ryan Seddon
I've played around with the appCache quite a bit and it certainly has its limitations. If you make an update to the manifest file it will re-download every asset listed in the manifest. The limit, although it isn't documented anywhere, is 5mb for iPhone and 10mb for iPad. It's really only designed

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

[WSG] HTML5 offline storage question

2010-08-08 Thread Andrew Harris
Hi all, I'm asking around the traps on a question which has come up at work. We want to develop an iPad app to will allow users to download from a website (like a synch) large quantities (hundreds of MB) of documents (pdf and word) for reading offline. Is the offline storage tool in HTML5

Re: [WSG] HTML5 offline storage question

2010-08-08 Thread Brad Kellett
It's really not designed for that amount of data. Perhaps this StackOverflow question will give you an idea on limits - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1921048/limit-of-localstorage-on-iphone ~bck On 09/08/2010, at 2:55 PM, Andrew Harris wrote: Hi all, I'm asking around the traps on a

Re: [WSG] HTML5 offline storage question

2010-08-08 Thread Breton Slivka
The iPhone has a 5mb upper limit per page. I think the ipad's limit is 10mb but I am not sure. So in other words, no. -Breton On 09/08/2010, at 2:55 PM, Andrew Harris and...@woowoowoo.com wrote: Hi all, I'm asking around the traps on a question which has come up at work. We want to