Cookie Monster is not the only one looking past cookies. The Web Storage specification aims to define “an API for persistent data storage of key-value pair data in Web clients.” Like the Geolocation ...

Of all the changes bundled in the HTML5 drafts, few are as radical or subversive as the options for storing data locally. From the very beginning, the Web browser was intended to be a client in the ...

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 ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

In an era where computers are at the center of nearly everything we do, human beings are generating a truly unfathomable number of digital files. We snap pictures and videos that fill our smartphones, ...