On 2008-03-24 at 07:26 -0700, Joshua Juran wrote:
> A desktop application can download mail or news batch-wise for
> offline viewing, but a Web app can't, except for what it can cram into the
> browser session -- it can't automatically save anything to disk.
Not true any longer. Whether or not this is a good thing, I leave to
you to decide. ;^) Also: only in the, uhm, "fuller" graphical browsers.
#include <disclaimers/employer_involved.txt>
#include <disclaimers/personal_capacity.txt>
WHATWG's HTML5 proto-spec has a storage API which Firefox 2+ implement.
("WHATWG DOM Storage", not Firefox Storage API, which is for extensions)
Also in Safari 3.1, which just came out, although the only official
mention I found was in a PDF.
* http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#sql
* http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:Storage
* http://images.apple.com/safari/docs/Safari_Product_Overview.pdf
(page 8)
Google offers: http://gears.google.com/
* Provides web-app controlled content caching and browser-side
sqlite storage. (And async threading)
* Windows XP/Vista
* Firefox 1.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+
* Windows Mobile 5+
* Internet Explorer Mobile 4.01+
* Mac OS X 10.2+
* Firefox 1.5+; Safari "in a future release"
* Linux/x86 glibc >= 2.3.5, libstdc++5.
* Firefox 1.5+
(Google Reader uses Gears for off-line access.)
-Phil
