Re: iOS BackupWebStorage Config Preference Default Value

[Stefan Dobrev <st...@gmail.com>]

This is the very first time one of our customers is having approval
problems with WebSQL powered app. If more popup I will follow up here.

Regarding the idea of NSLogging it I think it makes a lot of sense. Should
we progress on this with Jira item and a pull request?

-sdobrev


2014-03-31 17:17 GMT+03:00 Michal Mocny <mm...@chromium.org>:

> Background: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1561
>
> Back when we split the storage location into three options, there were
> vocal users that claimed that WebSQL was being used to store user data and
> should be backed up to cloud.  Many apps were not rejected with this
> setting, not sure if your situation is example of new policy, review fluke,
> or you are using storage for clearly non user data.  Perhaps you can make
> your case to the reviewer, not sure.
>
> Either way, we could re-investigate the question of which is the best
> default value.  Imho, there is a valid case for both options, we do not
> have solid data to say which is more popular, and the introduction of any
> change has friction.  For those reasons, I'm not convinced we need to make
> the switch.  Its possible we need to do better to let users of
> WebSQL/IndexedDB know about this setting (NSLog when in debug mode if the
> db files exists pointing at docs?).
>
> -Michal
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Stefan Dobrev <stefan.dobrev@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We (AppBuilder team) have received
> > feedback<
> >
> http://feedback.telerik.com/Project/129/Feedback/Details/124151-backupwebstorage-and-sqlite-apps
> > >about
> > the default value (equal to "cloud") of the BackupWebStorage
> > preference in iOS. The particular issue was that the App Store team
> > rejected the application because it was storing too much information in
> > iCloud. So here comes the question: do you think it makes sense to change
> > the default value of the preference to "none" or "local"?
> >
> > -sdobrev
> >
>

Re: iOS BackupWebStorage Config Preference Default Value

[Michal Mocny <mm...@chromium.org>]

That would be fantastic!


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Stefan Dobrev <st...@gmail.com>wrote:

> This is the very first time one of our customers is having approval
> problems with WebSQL powered app. If more popup I will follow up here.
>
> Regarding the idea of NSLogging it I think it makes a lot of sense. Should
> we progress on this with Jira item and a pull request?
>
> -sdobrev
>
>
> 2014-03-31 17:17 GMT+03:00 Michal Mocny <mm...@chromium.org>:
>
> > Background: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1561
> >
> > Back when we split the storage location into three options, there were
> > vocal users that claimed that WebSQL was being used to store user data
> and
> > should be backed up to cloud.  Many apps were not rejected with this
> > setting, not sure if your situation is example of new policy, review
> fluke,
> > or you are using storage for clearly non user data.  Perhaps you can make
> > your case to the reviewer, not sure.
> >
> > Either way, we could re-investigate the question of which is the best
> > default value.  Imho, there is a valid case for both options, we do not
> > have solid data to say which is more popular, and the introduction of any
> > change has friction.  For those reasons, I'm not convinced we need to
> make
> > the switch.  Its possible we need to do better to let users of
> > WebSQL/IndexedDB know about this setting (NSLog when in debug mode if the
> > db files exists pointing at docs?).
> >
> > -Michal
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Stefan Dobrev <stefan.dobrev@gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > We (AppBuilder team) have received
> > > feedback<
> > >
> >
> http://feedback.telerik.com/Project/129/Feedback/Details/124151-backupwebstorage-and-sqlite-apps
> > > >about
> > > the default value (equal to "cloud") of the BackupWebStorage
> > > preference in iOS. The particular issue was that the App Store team
> > > rejected the application because it was storing too much information in
> > > iCloud. So here comes the question: do you think it makes sense to
> change
> > > the default value of the preference to "none" or "local"?
> > >
> > > -sdobrev
> > >
> >
>