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a brief history of detecting local storage

A timeline of the last four years of detecting good old window.localStorage.


Jan Lenhart, bless his heart contributed the first patch for support:

October 2009: 5059daa

(typeof window.localStorage != 'undefined')

Simplicifations

November 2009: 15020e7

!!window.localStorage

If cookies disabled in FF, exception. Softer detect

December 2009: 1e0ba91

!!('localStorage' in window)

If DOM storage disabled in IE, window.localStorage is present but === null.

January 2010: d8947c9

(localStorage in window) && window[localStorage] !== null

FF with dom.storage.enabled = false throws exceptions

July 2010: ef2c47

try {
  return ('localStorage' in window) && window[localstorage] !== null;
} catch(e) {
  return false;
}

more shit because of FF exceptions

December 2010: c630c39

try {
    return !!localStorage.getItem;
} catch(e) {
    return false;
}

iOS private browsing fucks everyone!!!

October 2011: 5e2fa0e

try {
    return !!localStorage.getItem('getItem');
} catch(e) {
    return false;
}

stronger full capability test for localstorage with iOS private browsing protection

October 2011: a93625c

try {
    localStorage.setItem(mod, mod);
    localStorage.removeItem(mod);
    return true;
} catch(e) {
    return false;
}
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