Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Regarding Disk Space Limitations.

My company currently produces a series of web applications that are built to
be used in the field - sometimes in remote or isolated locations where
internet access is not possible. (i.e. remote environmental monitoring,
building electrical rooms, offshore oil rigs below decks etc.). As a result,
all of the applications make extensive use of the HTML5 app cache and Local
Storage so that they will function on tablet devices when in airplane mode or
offline.

After the field work is complete and the field worker is back in an office (or
otherwise reconnected to the internet), the collected data is transmitted to
the server.

We have successfully built our current products and have several more planned,
but the completely arbitrary limit of 5MB Local Storage prevents us from
creating optimum products for our customers. In fact, it completely eliminates
some important capability when it comes to storing diagrams and other critical
reference material for offline use. 

Since our customers purchase tablets that are specifically purposed for
running our applications, there is no need for any limitation whatsoever.

Our review of the standards have uncovered no rationale whatsoever for a 5MB
limit on Local Storage.  This limitation unfortunately undermines an important
and very worthwhile characteristic of HTML5 -- offline web applications.

We recommend eliminating this arbitrary limitation altogether (or at least
making the limitation a variable that depends on the available hardware
resources in some way).

As a minimum, it should simply be a user controllable value without
limitation.

We have given this item extensive consideration and welcome the opportunity to
discuss it in even greater detail with those in a position to alter the
current proposal.

Sincerely,
Mike Batton
Encircle Solutions, Inc.
michael@encirclesolutions.com

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