about 2 years ago - 1 comment
A while back, I wrote up a quick post about some of the new client storage options that will be available in HTML5, particularly localStorage and sessionStorage. While they are both pretty nice alternatives to the clunkiness of managing client cookies, they are definitely limited. The biggest limitation is the data structure that each supports…
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
A common requirement in the era of Web 2.0 (and beyond) technologies is the ability to have “smart” client interfaces that are aware of changes that occur on the server (data, sessions, etc.). Most approaches include some manner of AJAX that regularly polls the server for changes. While this is easy enough to accomplish, it…
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Something that’s coming down the pike pretty soon in tandem with HTML5 is the related, but independent W3C draft of a “Notifications” interface. Basically, this new interface provides a way for the browser to send notification messages on your desktop or device. So as example, while Facebook Chat will currently use AJAX to update the…
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Continuing on from my last post regarding new client-side storage options, I decided to keep the trend of HTML5-related posts coming So unless you haven’t visited the web in the last 3 years, you know that location-based services are super-hot right now. If social networking was the final result of Web 2.0, wiring-in people’s browsers…
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
If you’ve done any web development, at all, ever, you’ve undoubtedly used-and cursed-the clunky cookie. In all fairness, cookies are nice for what they are. You can store basic information about users and their behaviors on the user’s machine for use on your site, and they are fairly reliable. The problem with them, though, is…