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 ...

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 ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: This article outlines how chrome extensions can leverage HTML 5 local storage feature to persist data across popup and browser sessions. It uses a sample extension which is already ...

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 ...

With previous versions of HTML, local storage was limited, unreliable, and restrictive: cookies, (small, hence very limited capacity), plug-ins (annoying, often out of date, blocked by firewalls), or ...

When money gets involved, the games can only get worse. All of this means that client-based HTML5 apps can’t be trusted with serious data collection, and it’s better for everyone to be aware of their ...