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Where's our data, Google? Chrome 79 update 'a catastrophe' for Android devs with WebView apps:
A change to the location of profile data in Chrome 79 on Android, the new version rolling out now, means that applications using the WebView component lose data stored locally.
"This is a catastrophe; our users' data are being deleted as they receive the update," complained one developer.
[...] Google said it has halted the rollout, which is estimated at 50 per cent of devices.
The problem appears to stem from a change to the location of profile data in Chromium, the open source project on which Google Chrome is based. Some applications, such as those built with Apache Cordova, use the WebView component extensively, and in these cases the location of local data is determined by this component.
The upgrade to Chrome 79 should migrate this data to the new location, but a Chromium engineer remarked that "unfortunately local storage was missed off the list of files migrated."
[...] It gets worse. "There are several more missed migrations. 'databases' contains the websql dbs 'QuotaManager', and 'QuotaManager-journal' tracks site storage quotas," said another engineer.
One would think that after the deleting of user's files by a Microsoft Windows auto-update raised such a backlash, that testing for loss of data would be a top priority.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday December 19 2019, @12:18AM (3 children)
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(Score: 2) by arslan on Thursday December 19 2019, @04:41AM (2 children)
It is easy to be an armchair critic. Perhaps you'd like to share better alternatives, I'd be more than happy to look at better alternatives - so please enlighten us.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday December 19 2019, @06:43PM (1 child)
Simple - anything except a web browser. How hard was that, given that we know that the more links in a chain, the weaker the chain, and the web browser is a really weak link.
It would probably have been easier to harden Flash, since it wasn't trying to be and do everything - until it too fell into the same trap.
The more features you have, the more formats you support, the more you're screwed, and the more hoops you have to jump through.
To get back to essentials, the first question is do we even need a GUI? Many/most applications don't.
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(Score: 2) by arslan on Thursday December 19 2019, @10:39PM
"Don't use this" isn't really an alternative. I sure hope you're not proposing Flash...
And yes, some problems don't need a GUI, but fact is there still is a need to for GUIs in some cases, hence a good UI dev platform.