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NewsHow HTML 5 can fill up your HDDmemberMarco Bertschi1 Mar '13 - 8:32 
Feross Aboukhadijeh[^]
The HTML5 Web Storage standard was developed to allow sites to store larger amounts of data (like 5-10 MB) than was previously allowed by cookies (like 4KB). localStorage is awesome because it’s supported in all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4+, IE 8+, etc.).
 
The standard anticipated that sites might abuse this feature and advised that browsers limit the total amount of storage space that each origin could use.

 
So in HTML 5 there is a possibility to store a larger amount of data on client-side. Nice - But do we need it?
 
Unfortunately a web site can fill up your HDD with this technique by creating various sub-domains. Not nice - We definately do not need such a "feature".
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