HTML5, the new HTML standard, supports a wide array of new functions and layout techniques. It fully supports multimedia, CSS3, and drawing capabilities with canvas and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). HTML5 offers new semantic elements, and also provides a legitimate way to create HTML web applications using application cache, JavaScript workers, a new version of XMLHttpRequest, and something called web storage. This article discusses the power of web storage and why it's a better storage method than cookies. Learn about the basic concepts, browser support, and the HTML5 web storage objects.