[whatwg] Offline Web Apps

[Robert O'Callahan]

On 9/8/07, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>
> 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?


That's an option, but then you can't use the fragment identifier for its
scroll-to behaviour when you use it to pass parameters. Also, when
retrofitting an existing app, this requires changing the sources of links as
well as the destination pages.

Rob
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