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Re: Simple Lasts Longer

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Post by marcosdumay » Tue, Jan 09, 2024, 3:45 PM UTC

DeathArrow wrote: post #17

This reminds me of Hello World Enterprise Edition: https://gist.github.com/lolzballs/2152bc0f31ee0286b722 Sometime people really like to complicate instead of keeping things simple. Not just for show off but they genuinely believe something more complicated is better. Better such as it has better security, it has better extendability and is more generic. Even if those features were never in the actual business requir…

Scalable Hello World with a dynamic server pool size policy, a comprehensive health check so you can restart your instances in case of failure, performance observability, and centralized logging!

Re: Simple Lasts Longer

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Post by xnx » Tue, Jan 09, 2024, 4:12 PM UTC

Gigachad wrote: post #9

xnx wrote: post #3

Are there any ideas / draft proposals about browser access to shared cloud storage? (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.) The ability to store data on the user-side in a way that they control and is still cloud-available to multiple devices may be a feature that's just too user-empowering to be supported.

Can't you already do this with the regular file api? If you've got the cloud storage app installed, it will show your cloud storage as a folder to use in the file picker. Or do you mean websites automatically saving stuff to your cloud storage without any UI interaction. That sounds far too abuse prone.

The later. Browsers already save files to my local disk (cookies, web storage) and many of them sync data to the cloud (Chrome syncs passwords, extensions, bookmarks). I'm suggesting browser should also sync the 10MB of web storage.

Re: Simple Lasts Longer

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 09, 2024, 7:45 PM UTC

karlosos wrote: post #19

Using offline storage is the approach I use in most of my hobby projects. It's simpler, and faster (in developing and in usage) and there are no loading screens. In my kindle-clippings-manager ( https://github.com/karlosos/kindle_clippings_webapp ) I import highlights from Kindle and store them in localStorage. The major drawback is a size limitation (10MB). This should not be a problem in most cases but if you need…

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Re: Simple Lasts Longer

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Post by password4321 » Tue, Jan 09, 2024, 7:47 PM UTC

schemescape wrote: post #30

Local Storage falls apart on iPad/iPhone, unfortunately. The data is deleted if you don’t visit the site often enough. I lost my Wordle stats over a vacation this way. Even worse, if you have an HTML game hosted on itch.io (which uses a cross-domain iframe, for security), Safari just silently discards all Local Storage when you close the tab, with no option to disable this behavior on a specific site. I know Local St…

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Storage_API...

> Safari proactively evicts data when cross-site tracking prevention is turned on. If an origin has no user interaction, such as click or tap, in the last seven days of browser use, its data created from script will be deleted.

Re: Simple Lasts Longer

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Post by Gigachad » Tue, Jan 09, 2024, 11:06 PM UTC

xnx wrote: post #32

Gigachad wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't you already do this with the regular file api? If you've got the cloud storage app installed, it will show your cloud storage as a folder to use in the file picker. Or do you mean websites automatically saving stuff to your cloud storage without any UI interaction. That sounds far too abuse prone.

The later. Browsers already save files to my local disk (cookies, web storage) and many of them sync data to the cloud (Chrome syncs passwords, extensions, bookmarks). I'm suggesting browser should also sync the 10MB of web storage.

It sounds possible but pretty limited in usefulness. Almost all cookie usage is session tokens and tracking tokens. There is no point syncing these.

I suppose you could sync locally stored preference data but this is pretty uncommon since you could just store the data with your account. Would just be adding more complexity to the browser for a feature that very few would use properly, and likely many would abuse.