On Jun 11, 2007, at 2:24 AM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
I think the
Google Gears design for this works better than the Mozilla design,
because it lets offline mode use all the same URIs as regular mode,
so the offline support can be cleanly factored from the rest of the
web app.
It's not that bad, if your app avoids using URIs with protocol or
domain in them. As a proof of concept we modified Zimbra to use our
API; we just put its files into a JAR and things worked.
Having said that, it would certainly be nice to be able to get some
kind of consistency without JARs.
I think we should discuss the right standards approach
further, though I'm somewhat surprised that Mozilla hasn't brought
their work so far to the standards process before now.
Sorry ... first we wanted to get some experience with the API, then
we were busy. So do you have any comments on Dave's doc?
Dave's doc (along with Google's docs for Gears) is on my queue of
things to review, but probably next week since this week is Apple's
World Wide Developer Conference.
Cheers,
Maciej
