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HTML5 Developer’s Cookbook
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HTML5 Developer’s Cookbook

by Chuck Hudson, Tom Leadbetter
December 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
10h 42m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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11. Client-Side Storage

The persistence of information in the visitor’s browser has historically been limited to keys and values in cookies. Cookie storage is limited in size and structure, and cookies are passed with each request to their corresponding websites, creating unnecessary overhead. Certain sets of data could improve the user experience if cookies could be stored and retrieved locally, instead of being retrieved by web servers each time they are used. In HTML5, two client-side storage facilities have been added: web storage, which includes session and local storage, and database storage. In this chapter, you will learn about these new client-side storage options and work through some recipes to get you started with storing data locally ...

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