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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Posts Tagged: persistence
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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persistent local storage with dojo
Update: The providers attached to this post are part of dojox.storage now – no need to download them, just get a copy of dojo, and everything is there. Update II: dojox.storage won’t make it into dojo 2.0 and is not compatible with the new dojo/store API. For future-safe persistent client-side storage, see Storehouse – Client
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