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Is there any legitimate reason to allow arbitrary web apps to use gigabytes of space on my precious SSD, especially on mobile devices? I'm becoming increasingl

by kijin 7y ago

Is there any legitimate reason to allow arbitrary web apps to use gigabytes of space on my precious SSD, especially on mobile devices? I'm becoming increasingly wary of web apps having all sorts of access to things outside of the browser, sometimes without explicit permission. Browsers should limit every app to the same amount, perhaps 100MB, or maybe even 10MB. Apps that need more should ask for permission.

TomAnthony 7y ago
I believe the “Quota Management API” [1] the author is using is an experimental API for the browser to request more space, beyond the default maximum of 5MB. [1] https://developer.chrome.com/apps/offline_storage https://developer.chrome.com/apps/offline_storage
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- geekroutine 7y ago
  On the contrary its on active development, The one you are referring to "Quota Management API" [1] is not what's being used in the article. It's the "Storage" API's Estimate method [2] which is in active development. [1]https://w3c.github.io/quota-api/ https://w3c.github.io/quota-api/ [2]https://storage.spec.whatwg.org https://storage.spec.whatwg.org
dTal 7y ago
In a distributed environment like the web, how do you define an 'app'? If the restriction is e.g. 10MB per domain, what stops an entity registering a hundred domains?
- zzo38computer 7y ago
  One possibility is to require the user to explicitly set up an "app", to allow the user to specify the limits independentlyf or each one, to allow the user to put multiple domains into an app if they wish, and to allow the user to define multiple apps for a single domain in case they want to have separate sets of data to send in different cases.