>Offline storage is hard in a browser, as you pointed out; that's too much detail for me to understand >quickly, and I have no comment yet. In principle, such concern is valid. Even the w3 held a working group for a while that was around how broken app cache was (http://www.w3.org/community/fixing-appcache/)
It is still broken and been so for many years, well documented since 2011: http://www.w3.org/2011/web-apps-ws/papers/Facebook.html On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 5:33 AM, svetlana <svetl...@fastmail.com.au> wrote: > Dmitry Brant wrote: > > The fact that you don't see the benefits of the native app over the > mobile > > website is simply an indication that we still have a lot of work to do > with > > the apps, which we are excited to do. > > Partly this is because you don't support my mobile platform. > > Dmitry Brant wrote: > > But, is it a waste of effort to bring a truly integrated, seamless > > Wikipedia experience to our users' mobile devices? I don't think so. > Nor > > is it a waste of effort for the WMF to be seen as a driving force in > mobile > > design and mobile user experience. > > I was assuming that integration and being seamless are easily doable from > a web browser. > > Offline storage is hard in a browser, as you pointed out; that's too much > detail for me to understand quickly, and I have no comment yet. In > principle, such concern is valid. > > Documenting extra differences and shortcomings of web browsers could be a > nice task. > > svetlana > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
