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by bildung 2799 days ago
> Why do this? What are the failure modes this protects against?

I have a use case for this: I've written what is basically a crud web app for a non-profit. That's an offline app (appcache) and right now uses localstorage for keeping data offline in the browser while in the field. That is pretty brittle as is, but dedicated application installations didn't fit the budget. The app is used in the field by volunteers all over the country. With volunteers fluctuating and many people being privacy conscious, it happens regularly that they change Firefox preferences to delete cookies etc. on shutdown, and now newer Firefoxes deprecating localstorage, potentially resulting in data loss.

Something like IronDB would actually help me.

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Awesome.

If you find any bugs, or have any ideas to improve IronDB, don't hesitate to let me know.