[whatwg] Offline Web Apps

[Robert O'Callahan]

On 9/10/07, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> > 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.
>
> You can just pass the scroll position as one of the parameters.


Hmm...

Here's a real-life example:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389437#c3
Now if we refit Bugzilla for offline support, this will become something
like
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi#id=389437,c3
If we want the same URIs used both offline and online (which I strongly
believe is required), then for things to work when script is disabled, the
query parameters have to be stuffed into the "name" attributes. I guess
that's OK although it's a bit annoying.

> Also, when retrofitting an existing app, this requires changing the
> > sources of links as well as the destination pages.
>
> That seems like a minor issue, compared to the scale of the effort.
>
> I'd be interested in studying an actual example of what this would entail.
> Do people feel strongly about wanting this dichtomy between the online
> version and the offline version? Fundamentally, I feel quite strongly that
> we'd want them to use the exact same code all the time.


I'm just saying these are extra things that would have to be changed when
making an existing app offline-capable.

This isn't a big deal to me, authors can use the fragment identifier, it's
just ugly.

Rob
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