What's the difference between local/html5 on this page:
http://code.google.com/p/jquery-jstore/wiki/DefaultEngines
I was under the impression that I could use localstorage on Chrome, but looks like that's not the case?
Some elucidation would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Those pages are not very clear indeed, but digging further into the documentation revealed the meanings of ‘local’ and ‘html5’ engines:
local = Local Storage – DOM Storage, based on the HTML5 Specification for local storage.
[link obsolete]html5 = HTML 5 – Structured Client-Side Database Storage, based on the HTML5 Specification.
[link obsolete][note: the provided links are now obsolete; read more on W3.org about Web Storage and Web SQL Database.]
(source; as mentioned on the project's main page, docs are currently available on http://twablet.com/docs.html?p=jstore for the time being.)
About local storage in Chrome: that's not true; the table you linked to only point out the engine used by default in a given browser:
Does the --X-- denote "Supported" or "Not Supported"?
Neither, the "--X--" denotes the default browser [sic! – they actually meant ‘engine’ here] which will be used in the given browser.
A table of engines supported by several browser is on the Supported Browsers page. As expected, it says that current WebKit-based browsers (the table seems to be old) support all engines (except of course the IE proprietary one).