On 01/08/12 00:00, Greg Hellings wrote:
It's certainly possible. But assuming you want to be Supported Everywhere, you're going to have to work with the binary data in special ways. My only point was that JavaScript is not always straightforward with its ways to work with binary data since it was an afterthought - especially in a browser environment.
Concerning supported everywhere: yes, that's the problem. I don't have the good answer but generally I would think that we should shoot not where the deer is but where it will be when we finish (a year project?), when I hope the situation will be better. I hope. For example, I believe that sooner or later (I would expect sooner) Chrome will be a default browser on Android.
The URL of the image is "elephants.png", which is hardly conclusive evidence. :) Possibly because the page throws an error in Chrome when it attempts to load the image into the IndexDB.
Interesting ... how old Chrome you have? It's blob:60473a62-738d-457b-bfaa-31128a2e1449 here on Firefox/Aurora. Apparently it is a known bug in Chrome http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=108012
And my point still stands that it is storing a JSON-like object. Not pure JSON, but what you have is an object store and not a relational store.
Sure I know that ... but I miss your point. Is there anything wrong with non-relational object stores, especially when we are talking about storing essentially non-tabular and non-relational documents?
Good to know. So there is no limit on putting a blob into the IndexDB? That could lead to some very powerful offline apps. But I can't imagine browser writers wouldn't limit the size of data stored somehow. They wouldn't just allow you to keep creating data upon data in stores until you fill a hard drive... at least I would hope not.
Frankly, I don't know. When you are putting it like this, there must be some control over the access, but I am not aware of the details.
That's good, but for the other 99.5% of us who use Mobile Safari or the built-in Android browser when we're on a mobile device, how do we stack up? I ask in earnestness because I haven't tackled mobile web development beyond a single failed foray in 2007.
I don't have (and frankly, I don't care) about a good answer for iOS, but concerning Android, I still believe that Google will eventually switch Chrome to be a default browser (or makes the default Browser to be essentially Chrome), and as I said I would be shooting where the elephant (or deer, or whoever) will be rather than where it is now. And yes, of course, it is hard to shoot an elephant, because it can move elsewhere. I have no clue about the level of support for HTML5 APIs on the mobile Internet Explorer.
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