Class 13 Readings

Local Storage

• Advantages over isolated web application: No need for highly limited and potentially vulnerable requests continuously; persistent

• Deprecated solutions:
  • Microsoft’sDHTML; Flash’s Local Shared Objects; Google’s Gears
• HTML5: Web Storage feature (AKA “DOM Storage”)
  • Does not rely on transmission (unlike cookies)
  • Persistent in browser
  • Based around key-value pairs
  • Accessible via JS code (examples at this page)
  • Storage capped with no in-browser capacity request feature