> I believe the current proposal for offline web applications is too complicated, fiddly, and brittle. This is true, but I feel that HTML5 is the problem. Giv

> I believe the current proposal for offline web applications is too complicated, fiddly, and brittle. This is true, but I feel that HTML5 is the problem. Given that we can't hope for a quantum leap over HTML for quite some time, I expect that one of the JavaScript frameworks will emerge as a powerful application framework for web apps, offline and online. cappuccino.org is probably a good first generation example.