- From: Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:24:07 +1200
*Maciej Stachowiak wrote: * > I think the > Google Gears design for this works better than the Mozilla design, > because it lets offline mode use all the same URIs as regular mode, > so the offline support can be cleanly factored from the rest of the > web app. > > It's not that bad, if your app avoids using URIs with protocol or domain in them. As a proof of concept we modified Zimbra to use our API; we just put its files into a JAR and things worked. Having said that, it would certainly be nice to be able to get some kind of consistency without JARs. > I think we should discuss the right standards approach > further, though I'm somewhat surprised that Mozilla hasn't brought > their work so far to the standards process before now. > > Sorry ... first we wanted to get some experience with the API, then we were busy. So do you have any comments on Dave's doc? Rob -- "Two men owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?" Simon replied, "I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled." "You have judged correctly," Jesus said. [Luke 7:41-43] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20070611/7bff4a99/attachment.htm>
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