With HTML5 web storage, websites can store data on a user's local computer.
Before HTML5, we had to use JavaScript cookies to achieve this functionality.
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The Advantages of Web Storage
- More secure
- Faster
- Stores a larger amount of data
- Stored data is not sent with every server requestLocal storage is per domain. All pages from one domain can store and access the same data. by Valeri Tandilashvili
4 years ago