On 14 Mar 2015 05:49, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Janusz Majnert <j.majn...@samsung.com> wrote: > > On 13.03.2015 13:50, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> A big gap with native is dependable storage for applications. I > >> started sketching the problem space on this wiki page: > >> > >> https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Storage > >> > >> Feedback I got is that having some kind of allotted quota is useful > >> for applications. That way they know how much they can put away. > >> However, this clashes a bit with offering something that is > >> competitive with native. > >> > >> We can't really ask the user to divide up their storage. And yet when > >> the user asks an application to store e.g. a whole bunch of music > >> offline we don't really want the user agent to get in the way if the > >> user already granted persistence. > > > > The real question is why having a quota is useful? Native apps are not > > controlled when it comes to storing data and nobody complains. > > Users install a relatively small number of apps, and the uninstall > flow (which deletes their storage) is also trivial. Users visit a > relatively large number of web-pages (and even more distinct origins, > due to iframes and ads), and we don't have any good notion of > "uninstall" yet on the web; the existing flows for deleting storage > are terrible.
First you need a notion of "install". On an android KitKat, open browser tabs are listed in the same way as open apps, which is a first step. Should bookmarks and desktop icons be unified in a second step to indicate " installation"? Then, closing the tab of a non-bookmarked app would indicate ability to remove local storage (implicit "uninstall", but still following typical browser caching strategies). Removing the bookmark/desktop icon would indicate then indicate explicit uninstall. Cheers, Silvia. > > I think proper solution would be not to restrict the available space, but > > provide GUI for users to: > > * see how much space an app uses (if it exceeds some preset amount) > > * inspect the files in platform's file explorer > > Yeah, some improved UI flows along these lines would be hugely helpful > for this kind of thing. > > ~TJ
