[whatwg] What will not work when we do not have server ?

[Tab Atkins Jr.]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:05 AM, narendra sisodiya
<narendra.sisodiya at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>     I am making a (uff from long time) some e-learning modules using HTML5.
> The idea is just to make a full interactive lectures (audio, video, svg
> animations , JavaScript, canvas , all sort of new good web technologies etc
> ),
> But there is a little problem. Student will be able to download as a zip
> file. When they want to watch those html5 based interactive tutorials, all
> they need to click on index.html which will open the tutorial.
>  I want to ask that what will not work in this mode.
> for example, I have cheked that some basic jQuery ajax demos are working
> well in both url
> http://localhost/narendra/demo.html OR file:///var/www/narenda/demo.html
>
> I want to know the list for all the such drafts which will not work without
> server. So that I will avoid them Or try to get some workaround.

Anything that requires a server-side language (PHP, ASP, Python, Ruby,
etc.) won't work.  Anything that requires only client-side languages
(HTML, CSS, Javascript) will.

~TJ