8147 2009-11-02 17:38:40 +0000 The suggested size limit is absurd considering the multi-GB space available on even the cheapest netbooks these days. We need a clear "I want this much, how much did the user and his agent allow me to have?" API. Otherwise, online media apps like photo al 2010-10-04 14:55:49 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED NEEDSINFO http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#disk-space NE P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian bzbarsky ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 29253 0 contributor 2009-11-02 17:38:40 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#disk-space Comment: The suggested size limit is absurd considering the multi-GB space available on even the cheapest netbooks these days. We need a clear "I want this much, how much did the user and his agent allow me to have?" API. Otherwise, online media apps like photo albums and video editors will suffer. Posted from: 24.205.86.28 29255 1 bzbarsky 2009-11-02 18:33:32 +0000 The local computer may have many GB of space, but the user directory might be on the network, and much more quota-limited. I have several home directories with quotas under 2GB... 30207 2 ian 2009-12-19 01:07:20 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: This section is waiting implementation experience to find out how much sites generally need, whether there's a good interface to ask users how much a site can use (without making it easy for hostile sites to get more than the user intended to give), and how the disk space should be partitioned. Until we have that information, there's not much we can really do.