This article is excerpted from HTML5 Developer’s Cookbook and reprinted with permission of publisher Pearson/Addison-Wesley Professional. The persistence of information in the visitor’s browser has ...

When you visit a website, your web browser usually saves a lot of information during your visit. Some information is automatically saved by the web browser, in the form of cache and history. When ...

Several standards exist for storing large amounts of data in a user's Web browser. Each has its benefits, tradeoffs, W3C standardization status and level of browser support. All are better than ...

Cookies are usually delectable delights, but web cookies can sometimes be less than delightful. These little files hide in your computer so that your browser and websites can track your browsing ...

Sandra Person Burns used to love browsing and shopping online. Until she realized she was being tracked by software on her computer that she thought she had erased. Ms. Person Burns, 67, a retired ...

Google just started testing a new tracking system that will display ads based on your web browsing history. The browsing history that Google uses exists in cookies rather than in the web browser cache ...

Something to look forward to: The requirement for websites to gain visitors' consent to use cookies has given users more control over their data when surfing. However, it's led to endless annoying ...