[giow] (1) Suggest that quotas be based on uncompressed sizes, since …

…the alternatives are more abusable and less predictable for authors and users Fixing https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21319 Affected topics: DOM APIs, Offline Web Applications git-svn-id: http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps@8241 340c8d12-0b0e-0410-8428-c7bf67bfef74
whatwg · Oct 23, 2013 · bc78b9c · bc78b9c
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@@ -69477,6 +69477,9 @@ <h4 id=disk-space><span class=secno>6.7.8 </span>Disk space</h4>
   <p>User agents should allow users to see how much space each domain is using, and may offer the
   user the ability to delete specific <a href=#application-cache title="application cache">application caches</a>.</p>
 
+  <p>For predictability, quotas should be based on the uncompressed size of data stored.</p>
+  <!-- see https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21319#c3 -->
+
   <p class=note>How quotas are presented to the user is not defined by this specification. User
   agents are encouraged to provide features such as allowing a user to indicate that certain sites
   are trusted to use more than the default quota, e.g. by asynchronously presenting a user interface
@@ -82814,6 +82817,9 @@ <h3 id=disk-space-0><span class=secno>11.3 </span>Disk space</h3>
   <p>A mostly arbitrary limit of five megabytes per <a href=#origin>origin</a> is suggested. Implementation
   feedback is welcome and will be used to update this suggestion in the future.</p>
 
+  <p>For predictability, quotas should be based on the uncompressed size of data stored.</p>
+  <!-- see https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21319#c3 -->
+
 
   <h3 id=privacy><span class=secno>11.4 </span>Privacy</h3>
 

diff --git a/index b/index
@@ -69477,6 +69477,9 @@ NETWORK:
   <p>User agents should allow users to see how much space each domain is using, and may offer the
   user the ability to delete specific <a href=#application-cache title="application cache">application caches</a>.</p>
 
+  <p>For predictability, quotas should be based on the uncompressed size of data stored.</p>
+  <!-- see https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21319#c3 -->
+
   <p class=note>How quotas are presented to the user is not defined by this specification. User
   agents are encouraged to provide features such as allowing a user to indicate that certain sites
   are trusted to use more than the default quota, e.g. by asynchronously presenting a user interface
@@ -82814,6 +82817,9 @@ dictionary <dfn id=storageeventinit>StorageEventInit</dfn> : <a href=#eventinit>
   <p>A mostly arbitrary limit of five megabytes per <a href=#origin>origin</a> is suggested. Implementation
   feedback is welcome and will be used to update this suggestion in the future.</p>
 
+  <p>For predictability, quotas should be based on the uncompressed size of data stored.</p>
+  <!-- see https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21319#c3 -->
+
 
   <h3 id=privacy><span class=secno>11.4 </span>Privacy</h3>
 

diff --git a/source b/source
@@ -77565,6 +77565,9 @@ NETWORK:
   <p>User agents should allow users to see how much space each domain is using, and may offer the
   user the ability to delete specific <span data-x="application cache">application caches</span>.</p>
 
+  <p>For predictability, quotas should be based on the uncompressed size of data stored.</p>
+  <!-- see https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21319#c3 -->
+
   <p class="note">How quotas are presented to the user is not defined by this specification. User
   agents are encouraged to provide features such as allowing a user to indicate that certain sites
   are trusted to use more than the default quota, e.g. by asynchronously presenting a user interface
@@ -92172,6 +92175,9 @@ dictionary <dfn>StorageEventInit</dfn> : <span>EventInit</span> {
   <p>A mostly arbitrary limit of five megabytes per <span>origin</span> is suggested. Implementation
   feedback is welcome and will be used to update this suggestion in the future.</p>
 
+  <p>For predictability, quotas should be based on the uncompressed size of data stored.</p>
+  <!-- see https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21319#c3 -->
+
 
   <h4>Privacy</h4>