Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. Get the job done and learn as you go. Step-by-step recipes to get to grips with the LocalStorage standard. This book is great for those who maintain sites that use cookies in some form or another, and who want to learn how to take advantage of the LocalStorage standard to improve browser security and store more relevant information that can be retrieved at some point in the future, without recourse to the server.

Author Biography

Alex Libby's background is in IT support - he has been involved in supporting end users for the last 15 years in a variety of different environments, and currently works as a technical analyst, supporting a medium-sized SharePoint estate for an international parts distributor based in the UK. Although Alex gets to play with different technologies in his day job, his first true love has always been with the open source movement, and in particular experimenting with CSS/CSS3 and HTML5. To date, Alex has written several books for Packt, including one on HTML5 Video and another on JQuery Tools. Instant HTML5 LocalStorage How-to is his fifth book.