HTML5 Web Storage: Session storage The 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.

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 ...

The HTML5 (Web) storage specification offers a standardized way of providing larger amounts of client-side storage and partitioning of session storage and locally persistent storage, according to ...

HTML5 Web storage gives site owners the ability to make life easier for people that visit their websites. HTML cookies, used for years to track Web surfers, store information on the hard drives of ...

For example, Firefox 4 supports Web storage even for HTML documents loaded from the local drive, while Internet Explorer 9 invokes Web storage only for documents loaded from an HTTP URI.

HTML5 Web Storage: Local storageThe real advantages come with access to the localStorage object, which looks quite similar to the sessionStorage object but behaves very differently.