readwriteweb.com — An interesting tidbit came out of the recent Foo Camp New Zealand. Robert O?Callahan from Mozilla, who is based in NZ but drives the rendering engine of Mozilla/FireFox, spoke about how Firefox 3 will deliver support for offline applications.
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omatseiFeb 12, 2007
@ttfadia: Caching. When it's connected, retrieve all the information from the server. When it disconnects, use the cached version to create new messages, etc. When it connects again, uploads the new info to the server, which will do with it what it sees fit. This isn't rocket science here (although given the current circumstances at NASA, we might be better off if it was). Actually, now that I think about it, why can't this be done now with an extension?@kevin45: Gmail is great, no doubt about it, but if you're in a corporate environment with an Exchange server, there's no way you can get rid of Outlook altogether... it just has too many features which are integrated into other programs which, overall, increases productivity. Going to a different platform would be ... problematic, and probably not worth the trouble.
Closed AccountFeb 12, 2007
From another Firefox 3 story on Digg the other day, it was good to hear that FF3 alpha is already much lighter on memory use and much quicker. This is even more icing on the cake.I sincerely hope that NO ONE on Digg is still using IE as their default browser - anyone with enough tech interest to read Digg should have enough of a clue not to use it unless absolutely necessary.
neoplatonistFeb 12, 2007
Dugg up and blocked. Don't feed the trolls! Keep them just below zero.
michaelberlinerFeb 12, 2007
Thought I'd make a little point.... the Firefox 3 roadmap currently puts:Web Page Archiving * FR: store web page content for later retrieval and viewing * NFR: integrate with history for easy retrievalIn their, P3/NICE TO HAVE Feature section, rather than P2/HIGHLY DESIRABLE or P1/MANDATORY Feature sections. So, I'd say this is still pretty much speculation!<a class="user" href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Firefox_Requirements#Release_Roadmap">http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Firefox_Requirements#Release_Roadmap</a>
designhonkyFeb 12, 2007
Adobe is already working with Mozilla to open source the Flash Player.<a class="user" href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-11-07.html">http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-11-07.html</a>
halfnormalformFeb 12, 2007
Let's not digg people down for asking honest questions.
logicnaziFeb 12, 2007
Actually this is already include in firefox 2!Check out:<a class="user" href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:Storage">http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:Storage</a>Web pages just need to be redesigned to make use of it which they haven't since I don't believe IE supports it yet.
Closed AccountFeb 12, 2007
Thanks! I just pissed myself laughing at our little tete-a-tete!Nice one, brother!
ripcrdFeb 12, 2007
Why not build in the installer a script that downloads and installs the latest of each of those from the original site?Check boxes to pick what you want. Surely the gecko rendering engine can be used as Firefox is installed, then you bring up any download pages or license approvals in a Firefox micro-browser window. Install all and then restart browser, but not the machine unless you absolutely have to. This would be good for Java (JRE), Flash, Shockwave (Windows only), and acrobat reader or xpdf on linux.
Closed AccountFeb 12, 2007
> what is firefox?It's what you're going to get shoved up your arse if you don't learn to use Google to answer questions like that.