Thanks for all the comments folks, they've really made me think about what the aim of the project should be.
I'm assuming Maury doesn't mean offline in the sense of grab a page, disconnect from the net, edit it on a plane.
MAYBE, but if this is a technical challenge, then no.
My main problem is losing edits because of a browser problem or timeout. Firefox and Safari has greatly reduced this problem, so the need is not so pressing.
Another is having real editing. Firefox can Find in the editors, but Safari cannot. I prefer Safari, but editing a long article can be a real chore. Neither is ideal, however, for instance understand the tag language, so they find things inside tags, which isn't appropriate.
And I really want something to make CITEs and REFs WAY easier. Right now I often don't bother with CITE because it's just too much work. I want something where I can just drag or paste an url into a box and add anything I want to the CITE, and have the system maintain the tags in the article body.
Finally, I want to clean up the screen. In general terms the editor takes up 25% of my real estate, and all the editor help and other fields takes up the rest. The editor should be it's own window, everything else should be put "elsewhere".
as needed. Getting extensions to render their content will be interesting...
What extensions do you refer to?
The only caveat I can think of is that you've gotta make sure you have all the included files (mostly templates) downloaded before you go offline (and don't forget that templates can include templates, etc).
If these have links in the resulting HTML, CURL will get them all. If not...
Maury