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. Where 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 ...

I just realized that the new preferred method of tracking web users is by using HTML5 cookies (along with Flash cookies). If you go to your /Users/<username>/Library ...

There has been a lot of talk recently about zombie browser cookies, but the tracking behavior enabled by some new HTML5 local storage features is also cause for concern. Ars looks at one prominent ...

When I first wrote my abstract for my upcoming RMOUG Training Days 2011 presentation “A First Look at HTML5,” I wrote that I’d demonstrate HTML5 in versions of the three most commonly used web ...

Websites that accidentally distribute rogue code could find it harder to undo the damage if attackers exploit widespread browser support for HTML5 local storage and an increasing tendency for heavy ...