Comments on: Introduction to HTML5 Web Storage

By: unal

unal — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:14:31 +0000

great article ,it helped me a lot for my HTML5 presentation thanx :)

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:30:49 +0000

Great Tut…

By: Daquan Wright

Daquan Wright — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:05:39 +0000

@Vibrance: Do NOT go to w3schools, it’s filled with bad information: http://w3fools.com/

If you keep it up, I’ll cry and bring out the pitch forks. :)

By: Daquan Wright

Daquan Wright — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:59:29 +0000

I think web storage is just going to bridge the gap between native desktop apps and online web apps. The more we can streamline processes and keep data that the user has previously been in contact with from needing to be re-fetched, the web will become a brighter place. :)

I’m pretty excited for this feature, though I hadn’t had to use it yet.

By: Swamykant

Swamykant — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 06:51:42 +0000

Very useful post. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

By: Jacob Gube

Jacob Gube — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:01:03 +0000

@Thomas van der Ploeg, @Philip and @Mark: First, I can completely see where you are all coming from, so I appreciate and thank all of you for taking the time to share here in the comments. It is frustrating how technology isn’t in sync with the mainstream users’ browser choice. And Web Storage, for all its advantages, is a hard sell when the CTO of your company, client, your manager, [insert decision-maker here] is still using IE7 and can’t see/use all the wonderful things that took you extra project time to develop.

By: Vibrance

Vibrance — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:28:21 +0000

Have been reading on this recently:
http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_webstorage.asp

Its a concept where some would take a lot of getting used to.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:56:02 +0000

Frankly, as negative as their posts sound, I have to wholeheartedly agree with Thomas and Evert. Both are spot-on with their scathing remarks about browser use and updating. And their complete lack of faith in this new “feature”.

I see no benefit in implementing Web Storage over PHP session variables or cookies, other than the previously mentioned benefit to mobile browsers.

JS can be turned off (effectively breaking Web Storage) and cookies can be disabled, but (as far as I know) users have no control over PHP sessions…

By: Henry Louis

Henry Louis — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:01:33 +0000

How much of memory is available for web storage? Any idea?

By: Lars Kappert

Lars Kappert — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:24:12 +0000

For anyone being hesitant towards new features like this, I’d like to mention the following. I think it’s impossible to release new and matured features based on unfinished specs and without real-world usage; and its impossible to finish specs without real-world usage. This is a very innovative eco-system and I, for one, really like the fast pace of it, next to the fact that we seem to have a healthy competition going on between browser vendors. The process of users switching/updating their browser may be slow, but it does happen.

The end-user wins I think, and that wouldn’t be the case without HTML5, CSS3, new Javascript API’s, libraries and modern browsers. No matter how many mistakes browser vendors may have made, not many people will stick to IE6 if they have a choice.

Regarding the “cloud computing” comment and Philips question: data that is available locally will always be faster than data has to be downloaded first. And it is available when offline as well. So it’s still a great (and important) feature in cloud-based apps (potentially the whole app with data can run in the client, and updated remotely when online).