A user can, at any time, delete application resources from their file
system while the application is in use, or before the application's
next launch. They will suffer the consequences of their own action.
The operating system probably shouldn't chose to do so on its own, the
same way the OS shouldn't chose to pretend a file is safely on disk
when it's not.
~Brady
On Apr 7, 2009, at 6:12 PM, Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) wrote:
And as of right now, afaict, a user / user agent can prune a
database and not be in violation of the database spec :)
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Brady Eidson <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Apr 7, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ)
wrote:
I strongly share Jonas' concern that we'd tell web applications
that we're storing there data when we already know we're going to
dump it later. For 3 and 4 both, we're basically lying to the
application and therefore the user. Imagine a scenario where a
user has no network connection and unknowingly left their browser
in private browsing mode. Email, documents, financial
transactions, etc could all be "saved" locally then later thrown
away before they've had a chance to sync to a server.
The same argument could be made for retaining cookies set during
private browsing ;-)
I disagree, as cookies are already specified to be of unspecified
persistence. I believe a user agent can - at any time - prune
cookies from it's cookie store and not be in violation of the
cookies spec.
~Brady
