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Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Referrer: Comment: From James Vickers james@metabench.com I'm working on an HTML5 media player, it plays an album, in MP3 or OGG format. In order to make a web app that's as functional as a native app, it would be best to store the tracks locally. Localstorage logically seems like the place to do this, but then there is the suggestion: 'A mostly arbitrary limit of five megabytes per origin is suggested.' That limit is far too low for my purpose. I suggest that either this, or a different storage mechanism, allow provisioning of a much larger amount of space, should the user agree, of up to 4GB (or even better 256GB). The issue of a malicious app using up all the storage space is a real one, but HTML apps being able to use very large storage areas would enable very useful apps and overcome a current disadvantage of the web platform when compared to more direct filesystem access. I suggest that the requirement to easily allow a very large amount of space to be allocated for local storage, should the user permit it, be put into the HTML spec. A clear dialog box could be specified that says they are being asked if they want to allocate: s MB / GB of storage n1 % of the total space n2% of the remaining space on the device (n3% of the remaining free space on the logical drive) optional It could illustrate this with a pie chart and warn if the app is asking to allocate a large amount of space. The OS should enable easy viewing of what is taking up the space, similar to how it illustrates the space taken by native apps. This way the user could make an informed decision about allowing an app to use a considerable chunk of the available space. Posted from: 86.8.129.230 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.131 Safari/537.36
Browsers are supposed to allow users to opt sites in to greater quotas: # User agents may prompt the user when quotas are reached, allowing # the user to grant a site more space. -- http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#disk-space-0 Exactly what it looks like is up to the browser vendor, though. Please reopen this bug if this is insufficient. Thanks!