Browsers have—slowly and with a lot of growing pains—evolved over the past decade to become powerful workhorses. Enhanced layout controls, 3D graphics and gaming, and even music are now within the realm of possibility of the little old browser. One more exciting, although relatively less flashy (no pun intended), feature is client-side data storage. But what do we mean by this?
The “typical” process by which you navigate the Web hasn’t changed since time began: your browser asks for a URL, a web server sends stuff back, you then ask for more stuff, and the web server sends more stuff to you.
