IndexedDB is all the buzz right now, but it is pretty hard to find information about it’s implementations. In addition to that, the impls change on a weekly basis. So I figured it would be nice to summarize every now and then what has been happening around IDB in the last time.
Storage Research – Your Help is Needed!
Right now, I’m doing some research regarding client-side storage on mobile devices. But for that, I need your help! Please grab all phones you have and navigate to https://jensarps.de/tests/storage-tests/. There are four tiny tests there. Please do them all and report your results for each phone. If you like, include your twitter handle so I
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localStorage Performance Test Results
It’s been some time since I last updated this blog, mostly because there’s plenty going on these days. However, there’s something I’ve been wanting to publish for quite some time now: The results of the localStorage performance tests I ran several weeks ago. As I am currently working on performance tests for Mozilla’s IndexedDB implementation,
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Encrypted client-side storage with dojo
A couple of days ago, Nicholas Zakas wrote an article about secure client side storage. I think the scenario he mentioned (working from a cyber cafe) is not unsafe by nature, and could be well handled by an application. Nonetheless, client side storage such as localStorage still is subject to DNS spoofing attacks (which is
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Don’t use Cookies
– or: How to persist data in the 21st century. The common way to persist data on the client side – application state, offline data, whatever – still is to use cookies. But times have changed, and so have browsers, and there are better ways to do it today. But why are cookies that bad?
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