[whatwg] Gears design goals

[Robert O'Callahan]

On 6/30/07, Andy Palay <ajpalay at google.com> wrote:
>
> So I don't know why one would want to maintain atomicity at the domain
> level as opposed to the application level. When I run an application I want
> to make sure I get the latest version of the application. Not sure why it
> would mean that I want to make sure that I update all the applications from
> that domain.
>

Simplicity, mainly. Scoping updates (and the offlineResources list) to the
domain level means we don't have to define a new abstraction that delimits
application boundaries. And it lets us avoid any issues with partially
overlapping applications.

Rob
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