https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28706

--- Comment #8 from Brett Zamir <[email protected]> ---
Thank you for your informative response.

Yes, it surely is beyond a simple feature request!, and though your existing
positive immediate and realistic initiatives are of course most appreciated by
us in the community, and I do not at all wish for this proposal to detract from
them, my feeling is that having some long-term, even if tentative vision
spelled out with potential broad lines of action (such as your mention of
exploration of IndexedDB) might help momentum could eventually be built, and
excite contributors or would-be contributors with the cherished possibilities
of the team. While IndexedDB, for example, might not prove optimal, I think it
is hard to dispute that such an integrated offlineable web app system would be
more ideal, and that obstacles ought to at least be EVENTUALLY surmountable, if
not via IndexedDB than some other technology (but it really appears Mozilla,
Microsoft, and all the browsers are planning to go this route).

In addition to the IndexedDB benchmarking goal, I also would think that the
first proposed step (of caching manifests) would be a very practical step to
explore now, as they can allow "offline" caching only for non-dynamic
application files--not for content. One would not even need to declare all
possible cacheable files immediately in the caching manifest since the proposed
immediate-term goal would be optimization of performance and would not be used
yet for genuine offline functionality.

Thank you for all your hard work on what is already such a preeminently
ambitious and successful system.

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