h5bp/html5please — Issue #78: localStorage limits
Author: jzaefferer
Created: 2012-01-24 11:40:49+00:00
State: open

Currently it says "up to 5MB is safe to use", that is not correct. Thanks to Chrome (and a few other browsers), only 2.5MB can be relied on.

See http://dev-test.nemikor.com/web-storage/support-test/ and related Chromium issue: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=58985#c15