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To be fair, Google has been making strong progress towards offline data storage for Gmail and other apps, and the Chrome OS will presumably incorporate this fea
by mattparcher 17y ago
To be fair, Google has been making strong progress towards offline data storage for Gmail and other apps, and the Chrome OS will presumably incorporate this feature (which is actually part of the HTML 5 specification). This way, you could still access old email and create/edit documents, and the changes would eventually be synced up once you have an internet connection.
- protomyth 17y agoIt seemed from all the coverage that no app would work without a connection.
- mbrubeck 17y agoAlready the GMail mobile web app works offline with both Gears (Android 1.6 and earlier) and HTML5 (iPhone Safari, Android 2.0). The non-mobile Google Reader site has an offline mode for that works with Gears in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and IE. The Chrome OS webcast made repeated references to data cached locally. I'm not sure but it sounded like it might even cover more than just apps specifically written for Gears/HTML5.