send data from one page to another html page in javascript

1//use this in page one
2//where you will send data from
3function testJS() {
4    var b = document.getElementById('name').value,
5        url = 'http://path_to_your_html_files/next.html?name=' + encodeURIComponent(b);
6
7    document.location.href = url;
8}
9//use the following code where you want to receive data
10window.onload = function () {
11    var url = document.location.href,
12        params = url.split('?')[1].split('&'),
13        data = {}, tmp;
14    for (var i = 0, l = params.length; i < l; i++) {
15         tmp = params[i].split('=');
16         data[tmp[0]] = tmp[1];
17    }
18    document.getElementById('here').innerHTML = data.name;
19}