Mike Beltzner wrote:
> All,
>
> Some people arranged a private call (get out your
pitchforks and
> torches!) to discuss UI impact and platform policy
around Offline
> Application Support in Firefox 3. This was an initial
discussion with
> those most directly involved to flesh out the space and
scope the work.
>
> The notes are here: http://wiki.mozil
la.org/OfflineApps
For what it's worth, there's some overlap here with an
extension I'm
hoping to throw together before too long, inspired in large
part by
bsmedberg's htmlrunner demo a few years ago. In particular,
I speculate
that for some (many? most?) webapps, people would like them
to behave
(from a UI perspective) more like OS-native apps.
I suspect that the simplest way to do this is to give each
OS-native app
its own top-level window with the favicon as its
taskbar/dock icon.
That window would lose some of the chrome, could be easily
given a
desktop icon, wouldn't be allowed to inadvertently get
content from
command-line invocations, might hand off certainly links to
the main
browser window, etc. This avoids profile-sharing lossage.
Now to a large degree, this is a digression, because much of
this work
is unrelated to offline specifically. However, the question
that I
think it brings up that's perhaps worth giving a bit of
thought to now:
is "offline apps" really the way that it makes the
most sense to frame
things in the UI, or should it be more general, e.g.
"webapps"?
Dan
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