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		ef4 on March 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How a web app can download and store over 2GB with... localStorage and application cache are not the same thing. localStorage is the one that prompts the user for more than 5MB, but the author was using application, which I've never seen prompt.

notatoad on March 25, 2012 [–]

unless something's changed in the last couple months, localStorage prompts for any storage, and cuts you off completely at 5MB.

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