WebKit and HTML5 Client Side Database

October 21st, 2007  |  Published in Blog, Web Design

The WebKit project now includes HTML5 client side databases. I can’t wait to try this out!

The current working spec for the HTML5 standard has a lot of exciting features we would eventually like to implement in WebKit. One feature we felt was exciting enough to tackle now even though the spec is still in flux is client-side database storage. So for the last few weeks andersca, xenon, and I have been cooking up an implementation!
The ability to write and read to local client side databases is a huge change. This will enable richer experience on web because the time needed to send and receive information will be greatly reduced.