On Thursday 27 January 2011 20:39:50 you wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Charles Pritchard
> <ch...@visc.us<mailto:ch...@visc.us>> wrote:
> FWIW: websql is mostly abandoned, though super handy on ios mobile devices.
>
> It's been around for a while in everything other than FF and IE.
>
> IndexedDB is live in Chrome, Firefox and the MS interop team released a
> prototype for IE.
>
> For the record, we haven't shipped it to stable yet, though we do have a
> version in the dev channel. We're hoping to ship before long though (once we
> get the API back up to date).
>
> Moz and webkit both just implement IDB atop of their internal sqlite
> processes. That is, thy create a simple websql schema.
>
> For now, yes. It's actually pretty fast though!
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:31 PM, João Eiras
> <joao-c-ei...@telecom.pt<mailto:joao-c-ei...@telecom.pt>> wrote:
>
> > Afaik, websql does not support blobs.
> >
>
> If stored as strings, it does. sqlite treats TEXT as an opaque buffer.
>
> Not all binary can be expressed at UTF16. Note that this is also a
> limitation of LocalStorage as well.
>
UTF16 represents the character table user agents use when displaying a buffer
of text, because nothing prevents you from doing:
# localStorage.setItem('foobar', "\0\xff\ufeff");
# alert(escape(localStorage.getItem('foobar')));
Works in Opera at least, including in web sql dbs.
