Mobile Safari 5mb HTML5 application cache limit?

Question

It\'s becoming evident in my testing that there\'s a 5mb size limit on Mobile Safari\'s implementation of HTML5\'s application cache.

Does anyone know how to circu

Answer 1

I ran a web app that was larger then 5MB on an iPad (iOS 5) although it is an iPad once the page loaded past 5MB it presented a pop-up asking the user if he/she wanted to increase the size of the cache to 10MB.

I would appear that with the latest iOS version that if a web app needs more then 5MB of cache storage it will ask the user if it has permission to increase it so the user can manage his/her own memory space.

It would also stand to reason that when you view your usage data (say via iTunes) the amount you see in the "Other" category is probably web cache mostly. Also you can see how much space is being used per website by going to Settings | Safari | Advanced | Website Data.