HTML5 has reopened the debate about whether Web applications can compete with native applications. Now, with the latest World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s Web Application Working Group Web Storage ...

HTML5 Web Storage, Web Database, FileReader, FileWriter, and AppCaching APIs will transform Web pages into local applications, but not yet Of all the changes bundled in the HTML5 drafts, few are as ...

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 ...

A security researcher has found a loophole in how the HTML5 Web Storage standard is implemented in the Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Apple Safari browsers that could allow malicious websites ...

The World Wide Web Consortium has finalized its specification for Web Storage, a technology that would give Web applications more flexibility in storing data on user machines. Now that Web Storage is ...

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 ...

The HTML5 specification defines the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), also known as the lingua franca of the Web. The Web Hypertext ...