- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:54:27 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: whatwg@whatwg.org, public-html@w3.org
On Aug 23, 2007, at 6:42 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > IDEA > > Ok so here's my idea based on the existing ideas, the comments on > those > ideas, and so forth. One of my main goals was keeping everything as > simple > as possible. > > My proposal is that we add a new attribute to the <html> element, > which > flags that the page is a Web app that wants to be pinned for offline > execution and that when you next fetch the file or one of its > subresources > while online, it should try to update all the subresources atomically. > > <html application> > > This could either trigger the different behaviour automatically, or > only > when requested by the user, or we could say this applies to any > page, but > that the user must enable it, or we could provide an API which > triggers > this for the page. I kind of like the explicit attribute, though. ... > Comments? I haven't read over the details but there seems to be an obvious showstopper problem: this won't work for web applications that consist of more than one page. Regards, Maciej
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