Posts Tagged: IndexedDB

How to detect buggy IndexedDB implementations

After years of struggling with persistent client side storage, IndexedDB is finally available on all major browsers nowadays. All good, right? Well, almost. There are some implementations out there that are either buggy (Safari) or are lacking features (IE). It’s not a show-stopper if you’re just looking for a simple key-value store, but if you
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IndexedDB Code Completion and Type Hinting

IndexedDB isn’t really a new API, but most (maybe even all) Editors don’t provide code completion for it. This is a little annoying, but there’s a quick fix available: You just need to port the relevant IDL definitions to JavaScript, and tell your IDE to include the resulting .js file as a library. I already
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Storehouse – Client Side Object Storage for the Dojo Store API

It’s been some time since dojox/storage, and a lot of things changed since then. Most notably: Browsers now have IndexedDB, and Dojo now has the dojo/store API that widgets can directly work with. The dojo/store API was built with IndexedDB and offline in mind, has a nice API and allows asynchronism, meaning that it can
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Working with IDBWrapper, Part 2

Note: This is a tutorial about working with IDBWrapper, a wrapper for the IndexedDB client side storage. Creating indexes and running queries only works with the new version of IDBWrapper, so if already have IDBWrapper, make sure you fetch a new version from GitHub. All examples in this tutorial follow along the “Basic Index Example”,
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Working with IDBWrapper, Part 1

A while ago I released IDBWrapper. If you don’t know it, it’s a wrapper for IndexedDB, a current specification (in draft status) for an in-browser object store. It’s implemented in Firefox and Chrome, and somehow (as a plugin of sorts) also in IE, but, honestly, I don’t care about that too much. Update: IE10 has
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