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Offline Application

Added by Derek Spenser about 13 years ago

I am thinking about implementing a web based app which would need to be available both online and offline. I would prefer to use Wt to implement this but I don't know about any features for offline use. Does anyone know of a way (or can point me in the right direction) to implement an application with offline capabilities using Wt?

Thanks.


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RE: Offline Application - Added by Mohammed Rashad about 13 years ago

Its not clear what you are planning to do with Wt. Wt is web based framework. But you can run offline application using localhost.

RE: Offline Application - Added by Derek Spenser about 13 years ago

I apologize for my vagueness. What I am thinking about is a web based application which will be available either online or offline. The clients of the application will be on an unreliable network connection which means communication with the server may or may not be available. I would like to provide an application which is able to function with or without a network connection. This means the application would be able to store data locally while offline and then send that data to the server when a network connection is established. With HTML5, resources can be specified in a manifest file. Those resources are then cached by the browser making them available offline. Data from the application can also be stored locally. This allows a web application to function without a network connection. I would like to do something similar using Wt. I realize this type of functionality could be implemented in a Wt application through the incorporation of Javascript callbacks, HTML and CSS. I was just looking for something within the API, or someone who has implemented this type of functionality from Wt, which would help accomplish this goal of either online or offline.

RE: Offline Application - Added by Wim Dumon about 13 years ago

Hey Derrek,

Wt was not designed for this. But if we'd write a NaCl connector, we'd have a pretty nice solution for this (in chrome).

Wim.

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