OfflineAppsSummit2006: Difference between revisions

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Session Title

Offline Web Applications

Session Leader

Robert O'Callahan

Summary

A huge weakness of Web applications today compared to regular desktop applications is that they only work when you have a connection to the Internet. Providing APIs to fix that would help drive the Web forward and also be a big win for Firefox if we could get app developers to use them.

Agenda

What are the requirements?
- Same URL as the online app?
- Dynamic mode switching?
- ?
What APIs do we need to provide?
- DOM Storage
- Offline status detection?
- How to make page content available offline? [1]
What UI is needed?
- Bookmarks?
- Can we get away without any UI at all?
Who can implement this?
How do we get web developers to use it?

Notes

UI model: go to mail.google.com, and it works.

Pin model

Recursive walk (transitive) Great for browsing offline, but many problems for offline apps.

archive across the wire link rel="offline"

User's decision

If they bookmark it, we should make it available offline

What about users who don't bookmark?

Interested Attendees

Please add your name here if you're likely to attend this session, this will help prioritize sessions and minimize conflicts

Basil
Dria
Jay Goldman (Radiant Core)
Zach Lipton
ispiked
shaver
beltzner
Steven Garrity (if schedule allows)
Marcio Galli
bsmedberg
Mike Kaply
Javier Pedemonte
timeless
Brendan Eich
Myk
robcee
dmose
Rob Helmer

@@ Line 27: / Line 27: @@
 * Who can implement this?
 * How do we get web developers to use it?
+== Notes ==
+; UI model
+: go to mail.google.com, and it works.
+=== Pin model ===
+Recursive walk (transitive)
+Great for browsing offline, but many problems for offline apps.
+archive across the wire
+link rel="offline"
+== User's decision ==
+If they bookmark it, we should make it available offline
+What about users who don't bookmark?
 == Interested Attendees ==