Fast and furious

[Ashley Aitken]

Hi Kevin (et al.),

On 13/06/2007, at 9:09 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

>
> On Jun 12, 2007, at 5:13 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
>
>>
>> On 13/06/2007, at 4:21 AM, LuKreme wrote:
>>
>>> On 12-Jun-2007, at 11:36, Lon Varscsak wrote:
>>>> Yeah, I think this is part of the confusion.  They aren't Dashboard
>>>> "widgets" (which, would be "web technology" based, but yet remain
>>>> client side) they're just web apps....on the web.  So there is no
>>>> local storage (cookies maybe?) nor the ability to run the  
>>>> application
>>>> when your not connected to EDGE (assuming that's even a  
>>>> possibility on
>>>> the iPhone).
>>>
>>> How can you talk about this as if you know something more than  
>>> anyone else does?
>>
>> He can, because this is what Web apps are like, including Web 2.0  
>> apps.
>>
>> Unless they are planning to use something like Google Gears (very  
>> unlikely at present).
>>
>> These are just fancy, dynamic, Web pages.
>>
>
> yeah -

Was that a comment or agreement?

> what about local storage ?

Javascript in a Web browser (like Safari on iPhone) should not be  
able to access the local file system.  I hope you can see why it  
would be a big security problem if it did ;-)

As I mentioned Google is doing work, I hear, with Google Gears that  
will allow Web2.0 apps to keep running when off-line (I believe it  
uses a local database of sorts, but don't quote me on that).

As I mentioned though, this is early work (NRFPT) and Apple mentioned  
nothing of it.

Cheers,
Ashley.