Working Off the Grid with HTML5 Offline
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When your web browser was tied to your desktop, there was never really a time that you couldn’t get an Internet connection whenever you wanted to.
With the significant increase in the ability to access the web on mobile devices — first on laptops, then phones and now tablet devices, it is now easier to access your data and your apps wherever you go. Or is it?
This article was written on a train from London to Liverpool. The train has Wifi, I have a 3G data card, yet I am still never fully connected. Besides, many online tools today can’t handle this intermediate state of connectivity properly.
So how do we solve this problem? It is not simple, but there are steps that you can take today that will let your users use your app whereever they are. Some of these steps have direct solutions implemented in HTML; some will require you to implement some logic, all will help you build a better app.