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Javascript Session Data Storage

Does anyone know of a reliable way to store data to use across pages of a site?... Here is what I've found so far:

  1. Cookies - Not enough capacity to store what I need atm.
  2. URL hash - Same as above
  3. Frames - Not a method I would use atm.
  4. HTML 5 document.localStorage and document.sessionStorage - Not fully supported yet
  5. Google Gears - The users of the site will most likely not have this installed
  6. YUI Storage - This sounds promising... does anyone have experience using it?
  7. jStore - This also sounds promising, but when I tried using the demo and reloaded the page, it lost my input. Does anyone have experience with this plugin?

Note: I am not an admin of the site in question, so I don't have database privileges, but I am able to add scripting.

Edit: I found this interesting site that saves session variables in the window.name... it probably has some security issues as well

Solution

  • Dojo has a cool plugin that uses flash for a local storage. Plus it abstracts it so if they have gears or an html5 browser it will use that instead