Comments on: Offline Gmail, Blogger, and Portal Mocked

By: RudyD

RudyD — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:45:43 +0000

It is a fine idea!

I did not tested yet, but would be fine to store the mail on a location, and remove from the server. I have reached my gmail storage limit! B-)

By: Jorge Rubiano

Jorge Rubiano — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:29:05 +0000

Me parece muy bueno y todo lo que han hecho y hacen con DOJO es para admirar y seguir sorprendidos por la muchas aplicaciones que han hecho con Ajax, Felicitaciones a sus desarrolladores…

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:18:58 +0000

@till:

Presumably because you want Gmail to be the MUA… If there were a decent mail client that could handle Gmail tags, then yeah, this would be pointless. But the way things are now, I’d love to have an offline Gmail, even if it is only for the last 100 messages (I’d add in starred items as well).

By: till

till — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:57:55 +0000

You can already download your email with an MUA. Why do all the hassle? ;-)

By: Ricardo Momm

Ricardo Momm — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:21:56 +0000

Soon the internet will cover all areas over the world and you are worried about work offline? Work offline = stupid!

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:29:22 +0000

In my mind the achilles heal of most web applications has been the inability to save locally and work offline. If implemented correctly the ability to use web applications offline should put them on track to replace their traditional counter parts sooner than would be expected. The last barrier is to get web applications behind corporate firewalls but Google with it's search appliance penetration seems particularly well suited to doing this. Essentially, the public is field testing these applications now which gives them a proven track record for performance, compatibility and ease of use. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to hear them announce the Google "Productivity Appliance" or some such name sometime down the road. Probably sooner than you think. Interestingly, Douglas Bowman from StopDesign is now working for Google. However, prior to working for them he did a series of Blogger Templates. Ok, so how does this fit in. Well, simple. Corporate branding. Give Corporations branded web applications that sit behind a firewall, can be used off line and can meet or exceed the real needs of most current Office users.