What is the best way to store object data in HTML5's localStorage. I haven't worked much with key value storage. In my research i've seen a few different approaches. example data: var commands = [ {invokes: 'Window', type: 'file', data: '/data/1'}, {invokes: 'Action', type: 'icon', data: '/data/2'}, {invokes: 'Window', type: 'fi...
According to everything I've read, Firefox 3.5+ supports localStorage. And yet I'm seeing the alert (failing) in Firefox 3.6. Do I have some strange settings in my Firefox? Any ideas? function supports_html5_storage() { try { return 'localStorage' in window && window['localStorage'] !== null; } catch (e) { alert(...
From this slideshow http://slides.html5rocks.com/#slide8 and from Chrome: View > Developer > Developer Tools > Storage tab, I learned that there are at least 4 types of browser storage: Databases, Local Storage, Session Storage, Cookies (are there more?) What are the differences? When should I use one over the other? For example, if a...
I've searched around for use of localStorage in PHP, as I need to get localStorage data as a $var, in PHP and do stuff in PHP with it. Is this possible? Thanks! P.S. If anybody knows of any good HTML5 resources, other than what can be easily found on Google, please share? :) ...
I have a login page that stores a few values to localStorage (html5) then continues to a VB.Net page. I am looking for a method in VB that can read back those stored values and make them VB vars. Any ideas? ...
I am trying to build a web page (accessed by an Android Phone) where the user can upload a photo from their Phone. Then I want to store the image to a WebSQL database on the phone and send it back to the server via the xmlHTTP.send. Can someone point me in the right direction? Do I somehow need to save the image to a Canvas tag and ...
If I add some data to the browser's local storage, does it expire naturally? I'm thinking of storing some data with HTML 5 local storage, but the nature of it means it would expire after a few weeks. So I'm wondering if there is a method to check if the data needs updating? Or simply update the data every few weeks. ...
So, i have an options page where the user can define certain options and it saves it in localstorage: options.html Now, i also have a content script that needs to get the options that were defined on options.html page, but when i try to access localStorage from content script, it doesn't return the value from options page. How do i mak...
Is it possible to receive sorted results from an IndexedDB query? If not, what is the best way to go about sorting results? ...
I am using local storage to store user entries and am displaying the entries on another page. I need a way to sort them based on the most recent date and time of edit. Is there a way to do this with HTML5. If not, what's the easiest/most effective way to do so? Thanks for the inputs. ...
Edit I just tried adding this.setAttribute('checked', 'checked'); and it seems to work. Of course just minutes after I make this post....Anyone have any ideas why jQuery's attr() method didn't work? I can't seem to add a checked attribute to a checkbox via javascript. What I'm trying to do is retain state (via localStorage) of some for...
I'm looking for a way to conditionally load and keep the execution order of some javascript files (external and internal) without any library dependency. Basically, what I want to do is load them up only if the browser supports localStorage. Here's basically my shell: if (window.localStorage) { //load up JS only if it's needed var...
Are the values of items stored using the localStorage API viewable by users? Just like cookies? ...
We have a very dynamic site which uses session storage extensively to keep track of things. However, as we have switched from using just HTTP to HTTPS for sensitive forms we have discovered that the session storage is scoped to the scheme. For example setting a key value on a HTTP page will not be accessible from a HTTPS page, and vice ...
firstly, I coded some methods in Main Activity, But I decided they should be a class. this is my code... openFileOutput and openFileInput are undefined. Any idea?? maybe it should be service or activity...?? package spexco.hus.system; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io....
Im really confused when thinking about my requirement to store data locally for offline viewing.Now i have two options,DOM storage and HTML5 Local storage. As im a complete newbiew in this particular topic,i need some help of SO Experts and Gurus. Whats the Advantage and Dis-advantage of these two.?can any one compare these one.,so that ...
I'm replacing cookies with localStorage on browsers that can support it (anyone but IE). The problem is site.com and www.site.com store their own separate localStorage objects. I believe www is considered a subdomain (a stupid decision if you ask me). If a user was originally on site.com and decides to type in www.site.com on her next vi...
So i have a web application I've developed using jquery and some jqtouch. I have javascript functions to clone list items to another "favorites" list if the user so chooses. My question is how can I use localStorage to keep their favorites in the list when they come back into the web application? I can't seem to find a straight forward...
I've started writing a greasemonkey script, and am facing problems performing localstorage in the Greasemonkey script. The only way I could figure out localstorage in GM is by creating another instance of Javascript in the newElement.innerHTML DOM property, but there the rest of my variables are inaccessible. Any ideas ? Here's the Grea...