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Bug 8147 - 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
Summary: The suggested size limit is absurd considering the multi-GB space available o...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Keywords: NE
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Reported: 2009-11-02 17:38 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:55 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2009-11-02 17:38:40 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Boris Zbarsky 2009-11-02 18:33:32 UTC 
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...
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-12-19 01:07:20 UTC 
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.