Timeline for HTML5 mobile game storing data
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| Apr 4, 2013 at 22:36 | comment | added | David Sergey | Limit of the local storage is 5 megobytes (it's actually a soft limit, which can be extended by user if he chooses so). | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 22:16 | comment | added | Marb | Hmm good point - though I doubt it would be excessive like 5 mb. But it would only be 2 - 3 rows with 5 columns worth of data to store - any ideas? | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 18:46 | comment | added | David Sergey | Yes, however it begs the questions, if mobile phone users will be able comfortably play game, if they need to download more than 5 megabytes of data to play. | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 18:35 | comment | added | Marb | Ahh right ok, what that mean that HTML 5 would not be a fall back solution; and seeing that I am using the PhoneGap it would be better to tap into that to get hold of the local data? (in case connecting to server fails) | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 18:12 | comment | added | David Sergey | I would say, that even if there were something in browser, that would allow you to store more data than LocalStorage does, it's more likely to loose data than any other means. Browsers have a tendency to clean up old data, when it overflows afaik. Using native methods to store data on each platform provide solution as stable as it can get within platform permissions. | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 18:07 | comment | added | Marb | Isn't there certain platforms that do not yet support this though? I'm thinking the only errors that may occur if there is a phone OS update or just a rare occurrence of an error. I guess I'm asking for a suitable secure fall back so that I can store multiple rows of data that can always be accessed through HTML 5 rather than a third party. | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 9:21 | comment | added | David Sergey | May I ask what kind of failure are you expecting? If you work with PhoneGap, you will be using native file/database access same as every other application. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 19:33 | comment | added | Marb | I'm planning to use PhoneGap for the mobile version, however I don't want to rely totally on this in case of failure. I was just wondering if there was a certain way to store rows of data locally on a mobile for quick and guaranteed access to the data. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 14:35 | history | answered | David Sergey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |