[webkit-dev] localStorage quota limit

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Dec 2, 2009, at 8:14 PM, Darin Fisher wrote:

> What about Maciej's comment.  JS strings are often use to store  
> binary values.  Obviously, if people stick to octets, then it should  
> be fine, but perhaps some folks leverage all 16 bits?

I think some people do use JavaScript strings this way, though not  
necessarily with LocalStorage. This kind of use will probably become  
obsolete when we add a proper way to store binary data from the  
platform.

Most Web-related APIs are fully accepting of JavaScript strings that  
are not proper UTF-16. I don't see a strong reason to make  
LocalStorage an exception. It does make sense for WebSocket to be an  
exception, since in that case charset transcoding is required by the  
protocol, and since it is desirable in that case to prevent any funny  
business that may trip up the server..

Also, looking at UTF-16 more closely, it seems like all UTF-16 can be  
transcoded to UTF-8 and round-tripped if one is willing to allow  
technically invalid UTF-8 that encodes unpaired characters in the  
surrogate range as if they were characters. It's not clear to me why  
Firefox or IE choose to reject instead of doing this. This also  
removes my original objection to storing strings as UTF-8.

Regards,
Maciej

>
> -Darin
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Michael Nordman wrote:
> >
> > Arguably, seems like a bug that invalid string values are let thru  
> the
> > door to start with?
>
> Yeah, I should make the spec through SYNTAX_ERR if there are any  
> unpaired
> surrogates, the same way WebSocket does. I'll file a bug.
>
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