Dojo Offline Toolkit
Brad Neuberg annouces
the Dojo Offline Toolkit, that aims to allow web
applications to work offline.
The solution is truly brillant: it's based on a local HTTP proxy and the Proxy Auto Configuration. A web application wanting to enter offline mode instructs the local proxy to add its domain to the PAC, thereby triggering caching of its resources. The application also has to make use of the Dojo storage API to keep its working data while offline.
As with most of the technologies involved in Ajax, nothing new here since the proxy autoconfig has been there for more than 10 years! The true novelty of Ajax is the clever use of all these old things together.
Brillant!
The solution is truly brillant: it's based on a local HTTP proxy and the Proxy Auto Configuration. A web application wanting to enter offline mode instructs the local proxy to add its domain to the PAC, thereby triggering caching of its resources. The application also has to make use of the Dojo storage API to keep its working data while offline.
As with most of the technologies involved in Ajax, nothing new here since the proxy autoconfig has been there for more than 10 years! The true novelty of Ajax is the clever use of all these old things together.
Brillant!
Comments
Sylvain, thanks for the kind comments! What kinds of stuff do you hack on?
Best,
Brad Neuberg
bkn3@columbia.edu
Weblog: http://codinginparadise.org
Posted by: Brad Neuberg | January 17, 2007 09:12 PM