On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com<Simetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Marco Schuster
> <marco(a)harddisk.is-a-geek.org
wrote:
> > Are there any plans to use Google Gears for storage on clients?
Okay,
> people
> > have to enable it by hand, but it shoulda speed up page loads for people
> > very much (at least for those who use it).
>
> What, specifically, would be stored in Google Gears? Would HTML5's
> localStorage also be suitable?
>
Isn't GG supposed to be an implementation of localStorage for browsers who
don't support it yet (does any browser support localStorage *now*, btw?)?
What could be stored is JS bits likely not to change THAT often, i.e. if
Wikipedia is ever going to make a WYSIWYG editor available (Wikia has it!!!)
its JS files could be cached, same for those tiny little flag icons , the
wikipedia ball, the background of the page... maybe even some parts of the
sitewide CSS.
Actually, it could be expanded to store whole articles (then simply copy
over or enhance
http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/gears/articles/gearsmonkey.html - I'm
gonna modify it for german Wikipedia when i've got some time).
Marco
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