Cookie Monster is not the only one looking past cookies. The Web Storage specification aims to define “an API for persistent data storage of key-value pair data in Web clients.” Like the Geolocation ...

HTML5 Web Storage: Local storageThe real advantages come with access to the localStorage object, which looks quite similar to the sessionStorage object but behaves very differently. Where the ...

HTML5 Web Storage, Web Database, FileReader, FileWriter, and AppCaching APIs will transform Web pages into local applications, but not yet Of all the changes bundled in the HTML5 drafts, few are as ...

HTML5 storage support is designed for two key scenarios. First, it enables a site to work offline. As site users input data, even when offline, the data can be stored locally on the client and then ...

One of the reasons that it's hard to make good applications using web technologies is that web apps can't store more than a few kilobytes of data on the local system at a time. The upcoming HTML 5 ...