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In this chapter, we will explore what you can do with HTML5 Web Storage—sometimes referred to as DOM Storage—an API that makes it easy to retain data across web requests. Before the Web Storage API, remote web servers needed to store any data that persisted by sending it back and forth from client to server. With the advent of the Web Storage API, developers can now store data directly on the client side in the browser for repeated access across requests or to be retrieved long after you completely close the browser, thus reducing network traffic.
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© 2011 Peter Lubbers, Brian Albers, and Frank Salim
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Lubbers, P., Albers, B., Salim, F. (2011). Using the Storage APIs. In: Pro HTML5 Programming. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3865-2_11
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