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iPhone offline apps made possible by HTML 5 compliant Mobile Safari
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
It shouldn't come as a surprise that offline web apps are on the way to iPhone and Android platforms in the form of Google Offline. The trick is that newer browser technology allows the storage of cached information indatabase form. In Firefox and Safari, you currently need Google Gears to do this. Soon it will be built in (like in Chrome). Also, new betas of Firefox allow geolocation in the browser. This should be standard in all browsers in a year. The video from MWC 2009
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Google Demoes Off-Line Mobile Web Apps with iPhone (VIDEO)
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
New functionality being shown by Google publicly for the first time, allows mobile devices to access data that has been locally stored on the device without any network connections. A first for new-age mobile devices, and a breakthrough for developers.
iPhoneBuzz posts a video and images of the new functionality which is split into three categories. First, a web-page or web application can implement a local database which can store data directly on the device. Second, App Cache allows that same application to store its executable state directly on the device, which means that form processes being sent from a user’s “touch” ...
Browser-Based Offline Gmail Demonstrated On iPhone, Android [Gmail]
Gizmodo —
Gmail's desktop offline mode relies on browser extensions, but Google engineers have figured out a way to use HTML5 standards—supported by the iPhone, Android and Pre's webkit browsers—to accomplish the same thing natively. Google demonstrated a new Gmail mobile web app that leverages the HTML5 database and app cache features, which allow web apps to store certain types of data locally, much like Google Gears. The result is a super-slick app that retains a database of messages even when your cellphone lack any connectivity, and that'll allow regulars tasks—message ...
News: Google shows offline Gmail for iPhone at MWC
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
During a keynote at the 2009 Mobile World Congress this week, Google vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra demonstrated offline Gmail for the iPhone and Android phones. The updated web application features an improved interface label support, and offline access, which is made possible through HTML5 standards, including App Cache and database support. The app seems to be quite responsive, thanks to the database being kept locally. A video of the demonstration is available in high quality on YouTube ...
Google shows offline Gmail app running on iPhone
AppleInsider —
By Slash Lane Published: 02:00 PM EST Google on Wednesday demonstrated how a future version of Gmail could soon run offline on mobile browsers compatible with HTML5, including the iPhone's mobile Safari browser. Vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra called it a "technical concept" that Google has "never shown publicly before" during a live demo at the 2009 GSMA Mobile World Congress, which can be seen in the video from iPhone Buzz (below). As the audience watched, the executive brought up Gmail in the mobile version of Safari and then switched his iPhone into Airplane Mode, which disables all forms of wireless transmissions. He then returned to Safari and was able ...
Google Demos Offline Gmail for the iPhone
iPhone Hacks —
You might already know that Gmail Labs had recently released the Offline Gmail feature which gives users access to their most recent emails even when there is no internet connection. Google demonstrated this Offline Gmail feature on the iPhone 3G at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. If you are a Gmail user and prefer to use the web-based Gmail's iPhone web app on your iPhone then you will be impressed.
No Plugins Required: HTML Hack Allows Offline Gmail Support On iPhones, Android, Pre
iSmashPhone —
Google recently unveiled a non-browser-extension-based method of managing your Gmail account when you're offline. Up until now, Gmail users who wanted to compose and manage messages without being connected have had to rely on Google Gears. The new method (demonstrated in the above video) accomplishes the same functionality with native HTML5 database and app cache features. The advantage here is that, rather than the need for creating a bunch of browser/OS-specific extensions, the entire offline process can be managed in a way that's compatible with most Webkit-based smartphone browsers. That includes ...
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