>Offline storage is hard in a browser, as you pointed out; that's too much detail for me to understand >quickly, and I have no comment yet. In principle, such concern is valid.
Even the w3 held a working group for a while that was around how broken app cache was (http://www.w3.org/community/fixing-appcache/)

It is still broken and been so for many years, well documented since 2011: http://www.w3.org/2011/web-apps-ws/papers/Facebook.html




On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 5:33 AM, svetlana <svetlana@fastmail.com.au> wrote:
Dmitry Brant wrote:
> The fact that you don't see the benefits of the native app over the mobile
> website is simply an indication that we still have a lot of work to do with
> the apps, which we are excited to do.

Partly this is because you don't support my mobile platform.

Dmitry Brant wrote:
> But, is it a waste of effort to bring a truly integrated, seamless
> Wikipedia experience to our users' mobile devices?  I don't think so.  Nor
> is it a waste of effort for the WMF to be seen as a driving force in mobile
> design and mobile user experience.

I was assuming that integration and being seamless are easily doable from a web browser.

Offline storage is hard in a browser, as you pointed out; that's too much detail for me to understand quickly, and I have no comment yet. In principle, such concern is valid.

Documenting extra differences and shortcomings of web browsers could be a nice task.

svetlana

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