Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Ex DOM Storage gives us hope for IE 6+
Toru Yamaguchi has built a very cool shim, ExDOMStorage, which implements the HTML 5 DOM Storage API for IE 6 and 7.
It does so by strapping in the functionality via an HTC behaviour:
JAVASCRIPT:
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(function() {
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if (window["localStorage"] && window["sessionStorage"])
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return;
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with({ nodeSet: document.getElementsByTagName("script"), storages: ["localStorage", "sessionStorage"] }) {
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var loader = nodeSet.item(nodeSet.length - 1);
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var src = loader.getAttribute("src");
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var behavior_uri = src.replace(/\/\w+\.js$/, '/exdomstorage.htc');
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for (var i in storages) with ({ storage: document.createElement('script'), name: storages[i] }) {
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window[name] = storage;
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loader.parentNode.appendChild(storage);
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storage.addBehavior(behavior_uri + "#" + name);
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}
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}
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})();
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3.2 rating from 26 votes
U could also store data using window.name… session wise.. IE6 (sp3+) handles it fine…
but that looks hot to :P
Just a side note (not a competitive one); MooTools has something similar that it calls “Element.Storage”. Just FYI.
This is something I was planning to build when I had the time so thank you Toru Yamaguchi. Much better solution than what I had in mind (Flash ShareObjects.
Buddy - Graphic Designer from Katy, TX