Comments on: Offline Applications: A Brighter Future Than You Think

By: amnon

amnon — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:55:04 +0000

If you like this trend you really should check http://jnext.org. I would explain it but just looking at the two small samples in the main page will do do it much better...

By: Rick Treitman

Rick Treitman — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:38:48 +0000

We at Virtual Ubiquity live in the cloud. As the creators of Buzzword, we naturally gravitate to the online case, but certainly find ourselves occasionally disconnected. As we dig further into the business of providing desktop-level functionality delivered online, it becomes more than apparent that one needs an online/offline hybrid to be a truly functional product. As we’ve implemented Buzzword in Flash and are running our preview release in IE, Safari, and Firefox we more than look forward to migrating to Adobe AIR in order to provide the complete answer to web-based apps.

By: Marc Reidy

Marc Reidy — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:20:19 +0000

My company use Outsite in (www.outsite-in.com) as it provides a full platform (apache/php/mysql) install so that our web apps can run on the client. Currently we just use it for demo’ing our software but it means that we can create a sync client later and not have to rely on writing a brand new client app.
Also whilst I kind of accept the satellite arguement I think that signal strength (and cost) needs a lot of work so we’ll have fat clients for a long time yet.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:55:03 +0000

In a year or two most mobile phones and laptops will have built in satellite, GSM and 3G support as well as WiFi. Many planes, trains and cruise ships now have Internet access and cell transmitters are even being installed in subways. We are getting less and less offline this whole thing seems pretty pointless to me.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:15:34 +0000

Lotus Notes?

By: Jason Berlinsky

Jason Berlinsky — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:33:08 +0000

I am one such developer for this platform. I recently released software called GearsPress, which is a plugin for WordPress allowing blog owners to take their blogs offline for their users. An example can be found here: http://www.jasonberlinsky.com/view-offline/ and the official site can be found here: http://www.gearspress.com/

Jason
JRB Computer Services
http://www.jrbcomputerservices.com/

By: Brent Hopkins

Brent Hopkins — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:45:23 +0000

well, if you count Gmail, then yes I already use offline apps on my phone. I would sure like to see more… Google Docs would be a natural. Firefox is probably the best bet for a variety of apps from different sources. My primary concern with Firefox is similar to the problem with its many wonderful extensions: code bloat and slow startup times. I really hope they devise a way to load and unload extensions and apps much more quickly. Otherwise they will have to rename it “Fatfox.”