Storing persistent data in browser

Question

For my web application, I need to store form inputs spanning across multiple pages, until I finally process/manipulate them to produce some results (its mostly formatting th

Answer 1

Use webstorage (you can client-side store around 5MB of text or binary data)

Firefox demo: http://codebase.es/test/webstorage.html

DOM Storage is supported in these web browsers:

• Internet Explorer 8
• Firefox 2 for sessionStorage, 3.5 for localStorage
• Safari 4

Just google for sessionStorage and localStorage objects.

Also modern webkit browsers supports client-side sql.

Edit:
I'm not sure about what you want to do but using AJAX you can store everything in javascript variables and serverside databases or sessions are a good choice.