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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