On 09/16/2014 06:21 AM, Otis Rothenberger wrote: > I have no idea about cross browser and cross platform issues with Local > Storage. I'm not even worrying about MSIE any longer, but I think things > are OK with Chrome, Safari, and FF. Local Storage is still fairly new, but > I think there's real potential here. > A major problem I see with local storage is that it is considered as temporary storage for offline use. This means that you have no guarantee that it isn't erased by the browser or accidentally by the user.
And you also don't have any guarantee on the amount of storage available. The current defaults in my Firefox version 32 are 5 megabytes per site and 512 megabytes total. These might change over time or individually by a user. And other browsers might have different defaults. Since this limit includes other offline material (defined by a site-specific 'manifest') it might easily get reached if this becomes more popular. Another potential problem is that the data are stored browser-specific. Im am considering to use local storage for a serverless version of a document annotation tool (unrelated to Jmol) I am currently working on. But I am not sure yet if there will be too many issues. Regards, Rolf -- Rolf Huehne Postdoc Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) Beutenbergstrasse 11 07745 Jena, Germany Phone: +49 3641 65 6205 Fax: +49 3641 65 6210 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.fli-leibniz.de Scientific Director: Prof. Dr. K. Lenhard Rudolph Head of Administration: Dr. Daniele Barthel Chairman of Board of Trustees: Dennys Klein VAT No: DE 153 925 464 Register of Associations: No. 230296, Amtsgericht Jena Tax Number: 162/141/08228 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
