A little while back, Jake Archibald wrote infamously (and anthropomorphically) that the HTML5 ApplicationCache is a “douchebag”[1]. Mindful that this is a word freighted with troubling significance, it is the term he used, so I’ll go with it. The Urban Dictionary says the word douchebag generally refers to a male with a certain combination of […]
One of the perceived benefits of “native” apps is that they can be installed on a device, then run when the user isn’t connected. But web apps can do this too. In this session, John Allsopp will show you how to use HTML5 features such as appcache and webStorage to create apps that the user can install, and which will work even when the user is cruising at 30,000 feet with no web connection. These features also have the added bonus of helping to improve the performance of web sites and apps, and even work in all modern browsers and devices, including IE8 up!
Taking your web sites and apps offline with the HTML5 appcache There’s a general (and understandable) belief by even many developers that web sites and web applications can only be used when the browser has a web connection. Indeed, this is routinely cited as one of the real advantages of “native” apps over web apps. […]
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Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
