HTML5 Web Storage Browser Support

HTML5 web storage has been adopted by major browsers in the past year due to its usefulness. In fact, HTML5 web storage is one API that you can use without warring about lack of support. All major software product companies committed to provide support for HTML% web store in their applications, being a browser, mobile app or another type of HTML capable viewer.

Below is the list of all major browsers which provide support for HTML5 web storage.

Chrome - supports web storage starting in version 3.0 and grater
Firefox - supports web storage starting in version 3.0 and grater
IE - supports web storage starting in version 8.0 and grater
Safari - supports web storage starting in version 4.0 and grater
Opera - supports web storage starting in version 10.5 and grater

However, there are other types of browsers or plain old browsers that don’t provide HTML5 web storage support. As a result, you need always check for it and handle intelligently situation when this support is not present by displaying a user friendly message.