Re: HTML5 Offline apps future support?

Hi Joe

I'm nothing to do with google, but your question is interesting:

On 4/1/2011 8:12 AM, joe kolba wrote:
> Do you think GWT will eventually support offline app development by incorporating Webkit local
> database support? My company I work for is currently researching developing ipad/android web
> apps. Since we cannot run a java server efficiently on these devices we are considering going
> with HTML5, javascript and css3 to create large business applications.

1. What do you mean 'cannot run a java server efficiently'? Do you mean that you can't access an
on-line service reliably on a mobile device?

2. Nothing is stopping you from writing a JSNI binding to anything which is available in the
browser. If the browser has support for the feature, then you can determine that with one or two
lines of javascript and then use it. For example, there are bindings to HTML5 features such as WebGL
and other capabilities like XMPP (gwt-strophe). One of the nice things about GWT is that it is
comparatively easy to extend and tune your application's capabilities because of the infrastructure
work that Google has already done.

It seems to me that the bigger issue right now is that Webkit local database support doesn't
actually seem to be supported in the mainstream browsers.

Regards

Alan

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