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These days I feel like computers and the web are in a period of cooling. We've gone through a highly innovative stage where change was happening at an amazing rate, and now we are trying to integrate all that and not much new is happening. Except this change to the client / server model is quietly becoming a big deal:
The HTML 5 specification provides a new mechanism for client-side data storage: JavaScript database support. HTML 5 is currently in development by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). JavaScript database support is available in Safari 3.1 and later, and in iPhone OS 2.0 and later. You should read this documentation if you are a web developer who wants to store data locally on a user’s computer in amounts beyond what can reasonably be stored in an HTTP cookie.Google Gears, of course, is doing very similar things.