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Is Apple about to implement data persistence for Safari?
If the rental evidence we posted about earlier isn't enough, iPhone hacker extraordinaire Pumpkin has discovered evidence that we may soon see core persistence. TUAW wonders if this is possibly for Safari. Persistence refers to data that gets stored between sessions, similar to the way that Google Gears. This allows web apps to function off-line, when you are not connected to EDGE or Wifi, as well as online, when you are. Like GoogleGears, this mystery "CP" class (from the iPhone's AppSupport framework) relies on SQL databases to store and retrieve data.
So is this firm, hard evidence? No. Is it suggestive? Definitely.
Update: Webkit Persistence. Thanks Robert Mohns.
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Matt Thomas said 3:10PM on 11-21-2007
The Webkit blog wrote about this 2 months ago. They've implemented HTML5 client-side data storage in webkit.
http://webkit.org/blog/126/webkit-does-html5-client-side-database-storage/
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Robert Mohns said 4:21PM on 11-21-2007
http://webkit.org/blog/126/webkit-does-html5-client-side-database-storage/
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Nedsta said 5:06PM on 11-22-2007
Now this is interesting news. I really don't care about what fake iPhone usage some reader saw on a NCIS TV show or how much Apple is making off my AT&T contract. More like this, please.
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