On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.comSimetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com
wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Marco Schuster marco@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