21418 2013-03-28 06:20:12 +0000 I'm working on html5 apps which need to have offline work capability and am using localstorage. But we have a huge challenge of supporting multiple browsers. Localstorage specification does not sp [...] 2013-03-28 21:55:37 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified All other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P2 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike seshukumar_adiraju contributor oldest_to_newest 85080 0 contributor 2013-03-28 06:20:12 +0000 Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: I'm working on html5 apps which need to have offline work capability and am using localstorage. But we have a huge challenge of supporting multiple browsers. Localstorage specification does not specify that this should work across the browsers. For example if I load the html5 page in firefox and store something in localcache, I cannot retrieve it if I open the same page in IE. This will result in multiple instances of cache and for a offline application it could lead to huge sync issues. Technologies like flash or silverlight handled this well. While each browser might implement this differently, there should be some common storage/service at the OS level to ensure there is only one store. I want to suggest that this will be a very good feature to add in the spec. Please let me know how to propose this feature. Seshu KUmar Adiraju seshukumar_adiraju@infosys.com Posted from: 115.248.154.196 User agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; MS-RTC EA 2; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.3) 85126 1 ian 2013-03-28 21:55:37 +0000 You should handle different browsers on the same machine the same way you would handle different user profiles in Chrome or Firefox, or different laptops for the same user, or a phone and a desktop for the same user, or the localStorage of a browser after the user has cleared it, or after they got a new computer because they dropped their previous one in a river accidentally.