Web apps in offline mode
With the multiplication of web 2.0 applications mimicking (and sometimes replacing) desktop applications (we think of GMail, Google Reader, Google Docs & Spreadsheets), a natural evolution , announced sometimes ago is the offline mode. Imagine you begin to work in the day on you favorite web apps at the office where you’re connected to the Internet , then you want to continue in the train where there isn’t any wifi hotspot (blogging, writing documents,reading articles or emails). It will be possible soon.
Google began to work on offline mode with Google Gears: today it’s already possible to read news with Google Reader in offline mode. Blog.gears enables to create Blogger application to use in offline mode.
But this is an implementation done by Google..and what else?
On Mozlla side, Firefox 3 (Gran Paradiso) will enable the offline mode thanks to a local relationnal database (SQLLite). To discover howto enabling your web apps for offline mode with local database storage, see the HTML 5 Working Draft
On WebKit side : for the story, WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that’s used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit’s HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE )
There are some work on this side, to be hand in hand with the HTML 5 specs.
Safari for the iPhone/iPod Touch could in the future include the local database storage . For the information, SQLLite has already been compiled for the iPhone.
Download Firefox 3 Alpha 8 here (Win, Mac, Linux)
June 12, 2008 at 6:04 am
Helo,
Thanks for the info. Btw, where can I find Google Apps for local server ? or I call that Intranet Apps like Google Apps but it is running on local server. I use Linux OS.
Thanks & Regards.