I'm working on an app that needs to persist state on the client and must run straight off of the file system (no servers). All modern browsers seem to work fine with the usage of Local Storage as a way to persist state when running the app directly off of the file system, other than IE. I'm specifically testing on IE 10 and 11. It seems that when there is no server running the app, Local Storage and some other web API's cease to operate. Specifically, I also noticed that query strings on URL's were no longer recognized by the browser.
I've searched all over the internet for a way to bypass these issues that I'm seeing in IE. Right now, I wrote a small fallback for Local Storage, that uses cookies, but we really need to save a large amount of state on the client and cookies aren't big enough for this. Is there anything that IE offers that could allow me to enable these features for the app? If not, I'm not quite sure what to do. The only other solution I see is to break down our state into small chunks so that it can be stored and handled by cookies in IE 10 and 11. This could quickly turn into a mess. Any suggestions are much appreciated.