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If a browser syncs a private file system access across devices, I could see this being quite useful; e.g. you could have a Google Docs -like browser based docum
by jonnycomputer 5y ago
If a browser syncs a private file system access across devices, I could see this being quite useful; e.g. you could have a Google Docs -like browser based document application that doesn't depend on a Google hosting and snooping on it. I don't know about whether it adds anything above indexedDB.
- chrismorgan 5y agoOrigin Private File Systems should be in exactly the same boat as IndexedDB, Local Storage and cookies here.
- jonnycomputer 5y agoAre you saying that a Firefox user with an account which is synced across multiple devices does not sync the IndexedDB, Local Storage etc. That's news to me (though I have not looked into it particularly).
- chrismorgan 5y agoI don’t know what any browsers’ synchronisation systems do with any or all of these, but for syncability and sessiony purposes, these are all equivalent.
- jefftk 5y agoThat's correct: I'm not aware of any browser that syncs those. If one started doing that it would at least initially trip a lot of bot detection systems when a cookie for one device suddenly showed up on a different device.
- jonnycomputer 5y agoCould be challenging for application logic as well, if their state depends on these resources.
- extra88 5y agoFirefox Sync doesn’t copy of those. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-choose-what-information-sync-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-choose-what-in...
- ec109685 5y agoApple doesn’t even back up its local storage to iCloud, so if you have to restore an iOS device, anything stored there is lost (e.g. wordl progress)…
- jefftk 5y agoIt's much easier to lose localStorage than that: if you browse for 7 days without visiting a specific site, Safari will discard that site's local storage. (That also applies to this new API)