Re: local storage vs cache

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Brian Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jonas Sicking wrote:
>> I think the thunderbird scenario is a somewhat simpler one. The
>> solution there is basically AppCache.
>
> What about the caching of all the emails? And the handling of unsent drafts in offline mode? You definitely don't want to automatically garbage collect an unsent email.

For "data" like that I would normally say IndexedDB is the solution.
You're not going to fetch those using <img src=...> anyway so there's
no point in having them represented as a URL.

Though possibly things are different for a webmail app like gmail.

/ Jonas