Working with the Storage API / / No Comments Earlier this year at WWDC, Apple announced a whole set of new features coming to Safari in version 17. While that is not out yet, it’s still a pretty large set of updates. I’ve not been shy about my view that Safari has been holding the web back for a while, but I’m happy for any improvements that show up. While looking at the long list of updates, I saw Storage mentioned: WebKit has made some big updates to the storage quota policy. Previously, an origin had a starting storage limit of 1 GB. When exceeding the limit, the subsequent storage operation would fail in Home Screen web apps, or the user would see a prompt asking to increase the quota for the origin in Safari. Starting... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: storage, working
Whoops, my Gmail was held hostage to Google storage fees again – SlashGear / / No Comments Whoops, my Gmail was held hostage to Google storage fees again SlashGear Earlier today I happened upon the Android app called Photo Map. This app was developed by Levion Software, and it seems to deliver exactly the *service* it. “map app” – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Again, fees, Gmail, Google, held, hostage, SlashGear, storage, Whoops