cache size limits of mobile devices

Question

Hello,
Wha's the limit of the cache manifest, I read it is 50 Mo for Ios ?

and for android ? it depends of the Web browser I think.

because I'm creating a wedding's photo album in indesign, I would export with In5 to a Webapp.

(In5 is really a great tool that fill the gap of html5 in indesign)

thanks

Answer 1

I wish I had a good answer. The cache limits seem to change frequently (in a good way), and they're not well documented.

Here are some links with info:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6757945/cache-manifest-size-limit-and-web-apps#comment33742757_19842169
• http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/offline/quota-research/
• http://suburbia.org.uk/blog/2014/01/15/124659.html

Note that audio and video typically do not get cached because they are played by the device's media player (rather than the browser, which does the caching).

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Update (May 2016):

Thanks to Chris Converse, I have confirmed that small videos can be cached offline in newer versions of iOS:
http://gabrieleromanato.name/html5-debugging-the-offline-application-cache-on-safari-mobile/

Comments

Hello, thanks for the informations. very helpful.
max size are changing all the time, depend of the browser, of the versions…

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No problem. Yep, always changing.