[whatwg] Proposal: "Offline-Capable" Meta Tag and API Indicates Application's Ability to Function Without Network Connection

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Brian Blakely wrote:
>
> Hey Ian,
> 
> "What kind of app are you considering that needs 700MB at once?"
> 
> I'm considering videogames that the user would like to play offline 
> (plane flight, subway, etc), as well as massive software packages like 
> Adobe CS. A good application designer would allow the user to choose 
> portions of the app that they would like to cache long-term, but suppose 
> the user needs the entire thing?  In that case, 700MB could likely 
> lowballing by quite a bit.

I think appcache handles this particular case reasonably well (modulo it's 
other known limitations, anyway). The caching progress can be easily 
reported to the user (either by the UA or the page), so the user can know 
that they should leave the tab open while it does the update, and yet the 
page is usable in the meantime.

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