Fast and furious (local storage)

Ashley Aitken mrhatken at mac.com
Tue Jun 12 18:32:02 PDT 2007


On 13/06/2007, at 9:27 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

>
> On Jun 12, 2007, at 6:15 PM, Lon Varscsak wrote:
>
>> They keynotes "contact" application has no local storage...it's all
>> server based.  They demonstrate that it's visually very similar to
>> their contacts database but live querying a remote ldap database.
>>
>> Lon
>
> so you really need a fast EDGE connection to make these apps  
> worthwhile ?

Yes, or WiFi access.

But then there is Google Gears (or similar down the road) that may  
give us off-line access.  Of course, that doesn't make sense if you  
are trying to access a remote resource (like an LDAP server).

Cheers,
Ashley.



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