As we are getting inclined more and more towards devices, browsers are trying to do their best to actually implement features to suit the needs. HTML5 introduces GeoLocation APIs to the browser which enables you to get the location of your position directly using javascript. In spite being very much premitive, browsers are capable of detecting the actual… Read More »
Notification is one of the interesting thing that browsers are adding support to. Generally when we think of Web notification we always go for some HTML popup or using a new window through Javascript. But those html are generally does not follow any standards or even looks different to the user to different sites. Hence few of the… Read More »
Web workers are one of the most awaited feature of entire HTML 5 specifications. Generally if we think of, the current environment is actually turning towards multicore machines. Today, its verbally every computer has at least 2 cores installed in their machine. Browser are well capable of producing multiple threads that can run in parallel in different cores.… Read More »
Well, yet another offline storage can be the actual html that has been transferred from server. It is an important fact, that even if we use browser cache using cache header, the browser does not respond properly when offline as it does when one is online. HTML5 introduces a new way of programming style which ensures that the… Read More »
HTML 5 also introduces an IndexDb storage API just like SQL databases, which are high speed data access key value collection. In this post, I am going to cover how to use IndexedDb storage using HTML 5 API. On November 18, 2010, W3C announces that they are going to depreciate the addition to sql database but rather they… Read More »
Html 5 has come across with lots of new stuffs, some of them are overwhelming and very interesting in real world. One of such storage APIs that is available with modern browsers are SQL databases on client side. The specifications allows you to open a Database, create tables, maintain relationship, open transactions etc. These are in fact so… Read More »
It is sometimes important to detect the actual quota of storage that the current client browser supports before actually storing data into it. To prevent the exception QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR to happen in the browser, as a developer you will always need to query what are the memory that can be stored without exceeding the quota given by the client to… Read More »
Well, it might look quite similar with the one I explained before, HTML 5 also includes a separate object to deal with Session storage. The Session storage is actually quite different from localStorage API. In case of sessionStorage, the data will remain only when you are inside current session. Such that when you close the session of the… Read More »