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Last Call: Web Storage

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Published:: 25 October 2011

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Web Storage. This specification introduces two related mechanisms, similar to HTTP session cookies, for storing structured data on the client side. The first is designed for scenarios where the user is carrying out a single transaction, but could be carrying out multiple transactions in different windows at the same time. Cookies don't really handle this case well. To address this, this specification introduces the sessionStorage IDL attribute. Comments are welcome through 15 November. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

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