Storing information in the DOM?

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Published on 2010-05-12T15:52:23Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 16:34 UTC
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Im making a small private message application in the form of a phone. Ten messages are shown at the time. And the list of messages are scrolled up/down by hiding them.

Just how bad is it to use the DOM to store information in this way. My main goal for doing this is to reduce calls to the database. And instead of making a new call all the time, it only checks if any new messages has arrived and ads the new message(s).

Whats the alternative, cookies anyone?

Thank you for the time

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