[whatwg] Offline Web Applications feedback

2008-08-06 Thread Aaron Boodman
Some quick notes/questions... - I think the manifest should be some structured, extensible format such as XML or JSON. The current text-based format is going to quickly turn into a mess as we add additional fields and rows. - I like the fallback entry feature, but I don't understand why it is

Re: [whatwg] Offline Web Applications feedback

2008-08-06 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Aug 5, 2008, at 11:30 PM, Aaron Boodman wrote: Some quick notes/questions... - I think the manifest should be some structured, extensible format such as XML or JSON. The current text-based format is going to quickly turn into a mess as we add additional fields and rows. We've implemented

Re: [whatwg] Offline Web Applications feedback

2008-08-06 Thread Michael Nordman
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Maciej Stachowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 5, 2008, at 11:30 PM, Aaron Boodman wrote: Some quick notes/questions... - I think the manifest should be some structured, extensible format such as XML or JSON. The current text-based format is going to

Re: [whatwg] Offline Web Applications feedback

2008-08-06 Thread Aaron Boodman
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Maciej Stachowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 5, 2008, at 11:30 PM, Aaron Boodman wrote: Some quick notes/questions... - I think the manifest should be some structured, extensible format such as XML or JSON. The current text-based format is going to

Re: [whatwg] Offline Web Applications feedback

2008-08-06 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Aug 6, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Aaron Boodman wrote: On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Maciej Stachowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 5, 2008, at 11:30 PM, Aaron Boodman wrote: Some quick notes/questions... - I think the manifest should be some structured, extensible format such as XML or

Re: [whatwg] Offline Web Applications feedback

2008-08-06 Thread Aaron Boodman
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Maciej Stachowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HTTP caching can't promise that all the resources you load when your Web App loads will be available offline. But neither can this feature, since a resource is only there if the application previously loaded it for some

Re: [whatwg] Offline Web Applications feedback

2008-08-06 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Aug 6, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Aaron Boodman wrote: On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Maciej Stachowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HTTP caching can't promise that all the resources you load when your Web App loads will be available offline. But neither can this feature, since a resource is only

Re: [whatwg] Offline Web Applications feedback

2008-08-06 Thread Aaron Boodman
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Maciej Stachowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, the idea is that you just have your whole web app as an opportunistic caching namespace and make sure it loads everything it ever needs offline the first time it loads. I don't think this is a great feature but I