HTML 5 Local Storage proper usage

Question

I'm using the new local storage that html5 offers. When my mobile app (using phonegap) runs, it first goes to the server to get a list of members. The list doesn't change very often, so I was thinking maybe to keep it in the local storage and just refresh it every week or so. My question is if it's right to do so, because it's a list of 900 people. Not too big but also not small.

Thanks.

you can store 900 people object in localstorage instead of going every time to server to get it\ — Divesh Salian, Feb 28 '14 at 10:56
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2989284/what-is-the-max-size-of-localstorage-values — Itay.B, Feb 28 '14 at 12:44

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '14 at 12:06

900 people with (I guess) 5-6 fields for each one of them is around (did a test in my db with a text file) 45kb overhead. Most phones and tablets now can live with that. (Aka, putting a bigger image in the background is going to load your app more).

So go for it.

HTML 5 Local Storage proper usage

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