- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:20:18 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Aaron Whyte wrote: > > When a page is loaded from an AppCache, even when online, external > resources such as images will not be loaded at all. If foo.com has an > image <img src="http://bar.com/img.png" />, then according to the steps > in > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/offline.html#changesToNetworkingModel > it will fail the load for the resource. Right; an app is intended to be self-contained, such that if it uses a manifest, and has been tested and shown to work (even while online), it is more or less guaranteed that it will work offline. > For example, someone with an Offline Gmail client would never be able to > see cross-domain images in emails, even when completely online. Good point, an app that shows uncached externally-sourced content is going to have trouble with the closed-sandbox model. On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Aaron Boodman wrote: > > I think we could fix this issue by simply changing the rules to default > to allowing requests, and having the author mark the url prefixes he > wants to blacklist from being loaded from the network. On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Michael Nordman wrote: > > That would work too. We'd have to introduce a new kind of 'namespace' in > the manifest file. I've made it so that you can specify "*" in the online whitelist section to basically open it up to anything. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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