David Malouf: > > Kontra, how does this compare to Gears?
Google Gears is a plug-in approach and thus doesn't need to wait for HTML5. There are pros and cons associated with plug-ins in general. Do we have to wait for HTML 5 to be implemented? While HTML5 is not obviously ready yet, the major players in client-side storage, Apple, Firefox, Google and Adobe, all use SQLite. (One that's not using it at this point is Microsoft.) I suspect Apple went ahead with implementing this feature of HTML5 because it would like to bring data persistence to Safari in iPhone as soon as practicable. Whether Apple will actually deploy local storage in Safari before HTML5 is finalized is a matter of speculation. I wouldn't bet against it. I expect to hear about this more by next summer, about when we'll get acquainted with iPhone 2.0. -- Kontra http://counternotions.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
