Of all the changes bundled in the HTML5 drafts, few are as radical or subversive as the options for storing data locally. From the very beginning, the Web browser was intended to be a client in 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 ...

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 ...