735913 - Make app-cache cache things optimistically and remove the prompt

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Currently when a site uses the app-cache we put up a prompt to the user and ask if it's ok to store data for this site. If the user answers "yes" we permanently store the data on the users disk.

A better solution is to not ask the user and instead simply store the data such that if we run low on space we simply delete it. I.e. more similar to how we treat cookies (which we obviously don't generally prompt about).

We could even apply smarts and not store a site in the appcache until the second time the user visits it, or if the user bookmarks it or some such.

Comment 1

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Oh, and if we use the API which will be created in bug 735865 to store the files, they will automatically be nuked if we run low on storage space.

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

If you have questions, please contact :mdaly.

Comment 3

[Valentin Gosu [:valentin] (he/him)]

We removed app-cache a long time ago in bug 1584984.