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 ...

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 ...

What is Local Storage in HTML5 ? The Local Storage is a client side web storage database which is used to store the data in the form of key/value pairs. Using Local Storage, we can store the data of ...

HTML5 Storage is a disk-based, client-side storage medium that has a really simple and user-friendly API – involving only a handful of method calls to cover the full functionality of the technology.

This article is excerpted from HTML5 Developer’s Cookbook and reprinted with permission of publisher Pearson/Addison-Wesley Professional. The persistence of information in the visitor’s browser has ...

1. Cookies are incorporated with each HTTP request, subsequently slowing down your web application by transmitting the same information. 2. Cookies are incorporated with each HTTP request, in this way ...

HTML5 Web Storage: Session storageThe simplest level of Web Storage will store data for the current session — in other words, as long as the browser tab or window remains open. This may not be a hard ...