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== Web app deployment and capability improvements == | == Web app deployment and capability improvements == | ||
The recent resurgence in Web application development | The recent resurgence in Web application development has demonstrated the significant power and capability of Web technologies, as well as some key areas of desirable improvement. | ||
Chief among these is a client-local storage capability, which need is not sufficiently addressed by HTTP cookies. Cookies provide limited storage space (on the order of a few kilobytes), require the application developer to manually encode and decode any structure more complex than a simple string, and are transmitted back to the server on each request. In response to these limitations, some application developers are using the Flash plugin simply to gain access to a reliable and capable local store. Ian Hickson and the WHATWG have specified a simple but powerful client-local storage interface that addresses these concerns, and eliminates the dependence on proprietary plugins. | Chief among these is a client-local storage capability, which need is not sufficiently addressed by HTTP cookies. Cookies provide limited storage space (on the order of a few kilobytes), require the application developer to manually encode and decode any structure more complex than a simple string, and are transmitted back to the server on each request. In response to these limitations, some application developers are using the Flash plugin simply to gain access to a reliable and capable local store. Ian Hickson and the WHATWG have specified a simple but powerful client-local storage interface that addresses these concerns, and eliminates the dependence on proprietary plugins. | ||