Why do quotas exist both at the "storage bottle" and "storage shelf" level?

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Why do quotas exist both at the "storage bottle" and "storage shelf" level? #102

Open othermaciej opened 4 years ago

othermaciej commented 4 years ago

Why do quotas exist both at the "storage endpoint" and "storage shelf" level? This is not explained. The API in the spec only deals with the "storage shelf" level.

annevk commented 4 years ago

This is mainly to allow the limit implementations have on localStorage and sessionStorage.