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Niall Kennedy has taken a look at the various local storage options from various browsers, and cross-browser in Boost Ajax performance using local storage.

His article touches on the good ole cookie, Flash local Shared Object, Internet Explorer userData, and Firefox DOM Storage.

He talks about pros and cons, and efforts such as dojo.storage.

Conclusion

Client-side storage addressable from any web page has the potential to change the way we build web pages and the division of labor between client and server. Just as CSS and JavaScript created new ways to style and interact with a page, the client-side storage capabilities of modern browsers will create a new concept of a web application runtime. It’s yet another step in the progression of web applications trying to create the best possible experience using the latest widely deployed web browsers and browser plugins.

Web applications using these latest technologies can deploy an upgrade on-the-fly, initializing a new set of libraries and web page templates after examining a user’s browser and bandwidth for compatibility. Web applications such as Google Calendar might store your appointments locally, exposing this data to Google Maps or other mapping applications to plan the route to your next appointment without submitting a new server requests for the same data. Your webmail will be downloaded locally, quickly loaded even if you are on a plane.

Speaking of dojo.storage, there is another update:

• New Dojo Offline Release: Offline Files + Automatic Network Status
• Moxie demo application
• Latest Status report

It is cute that the namespace has “.dot.” in it

Source: Ajaxian
Original Article: http://ajaxian.com/archives/boost-ajax-performance-using-local-storage