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Hacks before HTML5

• userData allowed 64KB of data per domain
• 2002
  • Adobe Flash Cookies, 100 KB per domain
  • AMASS limited by some of adobes quirks
• 2006
  • AMASS was rewritten and integrated into Dojo Toolkit which gave 100 KB of storage for free but beyond that was not
• 2007
  • Google launched Gears , it was an open source web browser plugin
  • provided geo location API to and embedded SQL database
  • after getting permission from user it could sore as much data as it wanted to a sql database

    HTML 5 storage

  • allowed webpages to store key/ value pairs locally within the client web browser

    using HTML 5 storage

• store data based on key names
• if you want to store numbers you have to use something like parseInt() ## limitations of HTML5 storage
• 5 megabytes of storage
• usually cant get more if needed unless supported by the browser