1 Introduction

This document provides a statement of standards support. It is intended for use in conjunction with the Microsoft technical specifications, publicly available standards specifications, network programming art, and Microsoft distributed systems concepts. It assumes that the reader is either familiar with the aforementioned material or has immediate access to it.

A Standards Support document does not require the use of Microsoft programming tools or programming environments in order to implement the standard. Developers who have access to Microsoft programming tools and environments are free to take advantage of them.

This document describes the level of support provided by Microsoft web browsers for the Web Storage specification [W3C-WEBSTG], published 30 July 2013.