OWP Storage Team Weekly Status (for 2018-01-23)

[Joshua Bell]

Storage team (SFO/MTV) weekly updates. The Storage team works on APIs like Indexed DB, Cache API, DOM Storage as well as the underpinnings like leveldb, sqlite, blobs, quota, and related components like FileAPI and DataTransfer.

Triage

• jsbell has/keeps baton
• cache api vs. clear storage vs. devtools - bsittler@ continuing investigation
• bigger issue with clearing browser data?

Async Cookies API

• incorporating test feedback - bsittler@
• new tests turning into explicit ordering tests; non-obvious, and behavior is a mix of specified and de-facto standards - bsittler@
• implementing change events - pwnall@

Session Storage

• working through queuing issues - dmurph@

Blob Servicification

• deleting old IPC/blob code - mek@ (reviews c/o dmurph@)
  
• figured out that blob histograms were broken, fixed them - mek@
  
• progress on blob urls - mek@

Indexed DB

• Reviews of code cleanup fixes by samsung contributor - pwnall@

Miscellaneous

• looking into feasibility of landing IndexedDB/onerror integration - jsbell@, pwnall@
• custom protocol handler bug; turned out to be HTML spec issue w/ encoding, where spec deviates from Firefox/Chrome (only implementations) - bsittler@