- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 23:02:21 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > > Yes. Suppose Bugzilla had offline support. The Bugzilla UI has a bunch > of links it with with different query parameters (e.g., bug numbers). > Bugzilla running offline could take those parameters and use them to > look up a local database and populate the DOM. > > Maybe if we force offline apps to all be single-page then this isn't an > issue but I don't think that's a good idea. The new proposal doesn't rely on just having one top-level page. However, the query parameter thing seems overly complex. It means you're not just using the same file online as offline, which I'm strongly trying to keep, to ensure simple back compat. Given that you'd have to radically rewrite the app anyway to use an offline database instead of just using HTTP, why would we reuse the URI query syntax feature? It seems like it'd be better (from a consistency with existing specs point of view) to use the fragment identifer. No? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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