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 ...

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 ...

One of the reasons that it's hard to make good applications using web technologies is that web apps can't store more than a few kilobytes of data on the local system at a time. The upcoming HTML 5 ...

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 ...