HTML5 Web Storage: Session storage The simplest level of Web Storage will store data for the current session — in other words, as long as the browser tab or window remains open.

HTML5 Web Storage defines an API (application programming interface) that allows websites to store more data inside browsers than was previously possible by using cookies, which are restricted to ...

He instead calls HTML5 the "next generation features for modern web development." He also outlined some specific HTML features such as web storage, HTML5 Geolocation API, and so forth.

With Web Storage, each site has its own storage area on the user’s machine. Material is stored as key/value pairs, where each key is a string. The data itself must be in the string format as ...