Html 5 part 3 : Data Storage

Before html5 the only solution to store data on the client were cookies. But they are a pain to use. Html 5 solves this with the introduction new ways of storing data on the client.

Html 5 takes into consideration all the difficulties of cookies and moves the client data storage far ahead. Html 5 adds new ways to store data on the client: 

• web storage (session and local storage)
• web sql database api
• indexed database api (not there yet but announced at google io2011)
• file storage

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