HTML5 Offline apps future support?

2011-04-01 Thread joe kolba
Do you think GWT will eventually support offline app development by incorporating Webkit local database support? My company I work for is currently researching developing ipad/android web apps. Since we cannot run a java server efficiently on these devices we are considering going with HTML5,

Re: HTML5 Offline apps future support?

2011-04-01 Thread Alan Chaney
Hi Joe I'm nothing to do with google, but your question is interesting: On 4/1/2011 8:12 AM, joe kolba wrote: Do you think GWT will eventually support offline app development by incorporating Webkit local database support? My company I work for is currently researching developing ipad/android

Re: HTML5 Offline apps future support?

2011-04-01 Thread Thomas Broyer
GWT already supports the Web Storage http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/API (not yet released though, will be in 2.3http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source/browse/releases/2.3/user/src/com/google/gwt/storage/ ) Have a look at http://code.google.com/p/gwt-mobile-webkit/ for other

Re: HTML5 Offline apps future support?

2011-04-01 Thread joe kolba
1. What do you mean 'cannot run a java server efficiently'? Do you mean that you can't access an on-line service reliably on a mobile device? - I meant running tomcat or jetty on a tablet device in order to use GWT RPC for client / server communication. I know there are ways of installing jetty

Re: HTML5 Offline apps future support?

2011-04-01 Thread joe kolba
Thomas: I didn't realize that this feature was going to be implemented in 2.3 thank you for the info! On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:36 AM, joe kolba joekolb...@gmail.com wrote: 1. What do you mean 'cannot run a java server efficiently'? Do you mean that you can't access an on-line service reliably