- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:49:31 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Michael Nordman wrote: > > Thnx for the response Ian, much better than months of thundering > silence. Sorry about that; the appcache feature was on the back burner for a few months as I tried to get through the pile of old feedback. > I'm not yet sure we've come up with solutions that will stand the test > of time and merit inclusion in a spec either. Having said that, what is > spec'd for AppCache does hang together fairly well. What's there is > necessary and useful, but alas... insufficient. Its interesting to see > how this functionality has gotten stripped down to the bone, and I'm > looking forward to see how it gets built back up to something that is of > broader practical use. I seriously doubt if gears customers could > actually drop gears and use the HTML5 system as spec'd instead. I agree that what we have isn't yet enough for everyone. Hopefully we'll be able to move on to adding these features sooner rather than later. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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