Storing Data on the Client

HTML5 offers two new methods for storing data on the client:

localStorage - stores data with no time limit
sessionStorage - stores data for one session

Earlier, this was done with cookies. Cookies are not suitable for large amounts of data, because they are passed on by EVERY request to the server, making it very slow and in-effective.

In HTML5, the data is NOT passed on by every server request, but used ONLY when asked for. It is possible to store large amounts of data without affecting the website's performance.

The data is stored in different areas for different websites, and a website can only access data stored by itself.

HTML5 uses JavaScript to store and access the data.