AMASS
OK, so this is not for everyone (you’ve been warned), but for all the professional and amateur web developers that come here, if you haven’t read about AMASS in the last few days, you are out of the loop.
AMASS is a technique to provide 100KB of client-side data storage to an AJAX web application by using a one pixel hidden flash application and its “sharedobject” functionality. Think about it like a clever way to have a cookie on the client side, only without the ridiculous 4K limit that cookies have. The limit of the Flash sharedobject is technically unlimited, but it does ask user permission after 100K. So, if you want to be seamless to the user, stay under 100K. The data is available all time, after browser restart, etc. Even the code to use it is simple. It’s pretty damned great.
Great job Brad.
[via waxy.]
i wish this was as funny as the voltron post…