A simplified way to store script state across browser refreshes.

sesh.js

;(function() {
  return window.sesh = {
    init: function() {
      var self = this;
      window.addEventListener('unload', function() {
        self.serialize();
      }, false);
      self.parse();
    },
    data: {},
    serialize: function() {
      var data = JSON.stringify(this.data);
      if(data.length < 2000) {
        window.name = data;
      }
      else {
        throw new Error('The value may be too large to store depending on which browsers you plan on targeting.')
      }
    },
    parse: function() {
      try {
        this.data = JSON.parse(window.name);
      }
      catch(ex) {}
    }
  };
})().init();

niiice

yeah i couldn't find a good lightweight implementation of this, everything was either really antiquated or ivory tower. this is a nice little extensible structure.