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“The Past, Present, and Future of Local Storage for Web Applications”

• local storage is one of the areas where native client applications have held an advantage over web applications.
• Cookies are included with every HTTP request, thereby slowing down your web application by needlessly transmitting the same data over and over
• Cookies are included with every HTTP request, thereby sending data unencrypted over the internet (unless your entire web application is served over SSL).
• Cookies are limited to about 4 KB of data — enough to slow down your application (see above), but not enough to be terribly useful
• So what is HTML5 Storage? Simply put, it’s a way for web pages to store named key/value pairs locally, within the client web browser.

• HTML5 STORAGE SUPPORT ——|| —— IE || 8.0+ FIREFOX SAFARI || 3.5+ CHROME || 4.0+ OPERA || 4.0+ IPHONE || 10.5+ ANDROID || 2.0+

• The data can be any type supported by JavaScript, including strings, Booleans, integers, or floats.
• The storage event is supported everywhere the localStorage object is supported, which includes Internet Explorer 8