localstorage vs html5?

Question

What's the difference between local/html5 on this page:

http://code.google.com/p/jquery-jstore/wiki/DefaultEngines

I was under the impression that I could use localstorage on Chrome, but looks like that's not the case?

Some elucidation would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Those pages are not very clear indeed, but digging further into the documentation revealed the meanings of ‘local’ and ‘html5’ engines:

local = Local Storage – DOM Storage, based on the HTML5 Specification for local storage.
[link obsolete]

html5 = HTML 5 – Structured Client-Side Database Storage, based on the HTML5 Specification.
[link obsolete]

[note: the provided links are now obsolete; read more on W3.org about Web Storage and Web SQL Database.]

(source; as mentioned on the project's main page, docs are currently available on http://twablet.com/docs.html?p=jstore for the time being.)

About local storage in Chrome: that's not true; the table you linked to only point out the engine used by default in a given browser:

Does the --X-- denote "Supported" or "Not Supported"?
Neither, the "--X--" denotes the default browser [sic! – they actually meant ‘engine’ here] which will be used in the given browser.

A table of engines supported by several browser is on the Supported Browsers page. As expected, it says that current WebKit-based browsers (the table seems to be old) support all engines (except of course the IE proprietary one).