Thanks, Otis - I had heard about local storage but had not looked into how
it works.
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Otis Rothenberger <osrot...@chemagic.com>
wrote:
> This may be common knowledge, but I sure as heck did not know about it
> until this morning. So I'll pass it on just in case there are others who
> don't know about HTML5 Local Storage.
>
> The latest versions of common HTML5 browsers have an HTML5 feature called
> Local Storage. The feature stores text name-value-pairs to local browser
> storage - just like cookies. BUT the allowed storage is huge compared to
> cookies. Typically, it's about 5MB per domain - cookies on steroids. These
> "cookies" persist until the user purges them manually. They can also be
> cleared by JavaScript on the page.
>
> The following two lines of code show how simple this is to implement with
> Jmol state:
>
> JavaScript
> localStorage.setItem("state1", Jmol.getPropertyAsString(jmolApplet0,
> "stateinfo"))
>
> followed by
>
> JmolScript
> script javascript:localStorage.getItem("state1")
>
> All kinds of things come to mind here. An in class Jmol/JME note book
> comes to mind immediately.
>
> Sorry if this is old hat, but like I said, this is all new and kind of
> wonderful to me.
>
> Otis
>
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