OfflineAppsSummit2006

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?

Interested Attendees

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• Basil
• Dria
• Jay Goldman (Radiant Core)