I don't think it's a problem of the developer not knowing, they generally do know how much storage they'll need (or at least put an upper limit). It's a problem of trust.
Maybe the dev things they'll need 1GB but I'm not ready to give them that. The same way the apps asks for certain privileges when you install an app on, say, android.
I wonder why anybody thought it was a good idea to let any web page store some random stuff on my computer. Cookies were bad enough already.
You know, you can say what you want about Flash, but I least I could block it. These days I can't browse half the web if I disable javascript. One of these days I'll just run my browser with a separate UID just so I can keep it under control. Or better yet, a VM, since it appears people want to turn the browser into an OS anyway.
Maybe the dev things they'll need 1GB but I'm not ready to give them that. The same way the apps asks for certain privileges when you install an app on, say, android.
I wonder why anybody thought it was a good idea to let any web page store some random stuff on my computer. Cookies were bad enough already.
You know, you can say what you want about Flash, but I least I could block it. These days I can't browse half the web if I disable javascript. One of these days I'll just run my browser with a separate UID just so I can keep it under control. Or better yet, a VM, since it appears people want to turn the browser into an OS anyway.