Posts Tagged: localStorage

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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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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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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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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– 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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