This would probably be a performance win since it would reduce the amount of disk i/o.
(Note, it doesn't mean that 5 million characters could be stored since a UTF-8 character might be multi-byte.) -Darin On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Michael Nordman <[email protected]> wrote: > Could WebKit configure the localstorage database(s) to use UTF8 text > encoding for string values? > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 8:38 AM, William Edney < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> All - >> >> I've been discussing the localStorage quota limit over on this bug with >> Jeremy Orlow: >> >> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31791 >> >> To recap from the discussions on that bug: >> >> Jeremy has implemented the localStorage quota on the latest Webkit builds. >> This caused my usage of localStorage to fail, because as a JS programmer, I >> assumed that 5MB meant '5 million characters' of storage. This assumption >> holds true on Firefox 3.5.X+ and IE8, but fails on Webkit since it stores >> things into localStorage as UTF-16. >> >> One option we discussed on that bug was getting the spec folks to alter >> the spec in one of three ways: >> >> - specify the quota in terms of 'characters' (or Strings, or whatever) >> thereby abstracting away the encoding problem entirely. >> - specify UTF-8 so that 'MB = characters' >> - specify a JS API such that the encoding could be specified. >> >> Jeremy wasn't too taken with any of these proposals, and in any case, they >> probably need to be taken up on the W3 group defining this stuff, not here. >> >> In any case, as Jeremy states in Comment #5 of the bug report, "the spec's >> mentioning of 5mb is really just an example". And when I filed this bug on >> Mozilla's Bugzilla tracker: >> >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461684 >> >> another comment there points out the same thing. (Note that this bug was >> originally filed to see if the Mozilla guys would raise their quota to 10MB >> to match IE8 and, since they don't use double-byte encoding, I was really >> asking for '10 million characters' there :-)). >> >> Given that, an increase from 5MB to 10MB would 'solve my immediate >> problem'. And, without going back to the spec folks, I'm not sure that much >> more can be done here. >> >> Jeremy wanted me to post to get the discussion started (and hopefully >> attain some consensus :-) ), so let's discuss :-). >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> Cheers, >> >> - Bill >> >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >
_______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
