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== Web app deployment and capability improvements ==
The recent resurgence in Web application development as has demonstrated the significant power and capability of Web technologies, as well as some key areas of desirable improvement.
Chief among these is a client-local storage capability, which need is not sufficiently addressed by HTTP cookies. Cookies provide limited storage space (on the order of a few kilobytes), require the application developer to manually encode and decode any structure more complex than a simple string, and are transmitted back to the server on each request. In response to these limitations, some application developers are using the Flash plugin simply to gain access to a reliable and capable local store. Ian Hickson and the WHATWG have specified a simple but powerful client-local storage interface that addresses these concerns, and eliminates the dependence on proprietary plugins.
