Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Offline: What does it mean and why should I care?
Michael Mahemoff has posted an extremely in-depth tutorial on HTML5Rocks on the subject of offline web apps:
- Introduction: The Meaning of “Offline”
- Application Cache and Offline Storage
- Older Offline Storage Techniques
- Offline Storage in the Era of HTML5
- How to Use the Offline Technologies
- Summary
- Further Reading
(BTW, don’t hate me ‘cuse of the LOLCat pic — you know you secretly like it)
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Very useful overview. Nice to see everything clearly explained in one place.
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Although I still don’t get why the localStorage API couldn’t be extended to do what IndexedDB does.
Epic. The TOC is a list of links that anchor to this page. Perhaps they should have their href’s removed…
@Sixtyseconds I’ve updated the links to point to the article.