I want to store images and sounds using JS. Is there any API for this, like the localstorage? Unfortunatly in the localstorage I can only save text.
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I want to store images and sounds using JS. Is there any API for this, like the localstorage? Unfortunatly in the localstorage I can only save text.
While you could store files manually (with Google Chrome’s File API), the intended approach is caching. Cache is a straightforward way to store your media seemingly automatically.
It’s only a matter of writing a manifest:
After the first load of these files, you just load them again as usual, but they come from the disk instead of your server. It works when the browser is off-line, too.
It also degrades nicely: unsupported browsers would simply manage the cache as they see feet.
Here’s a tutorial by Google at HTML5Rocks.