We make enterprise SaaS products with Rails. It's starting to look like we're going to need some kind of limited "Offline Mode" for the apps, because many of our customers have remote locations with ...

Google engineers have enabled what Internet surfers for years have yearned for--Web applications that work offline. The search giant on Wednesday launched Google Gears, a browser plug-in that will let ...

Although the offline-browsing technology is currently available only for a small number of sites, Gears can keep you working--sort of--when your Internet connection fails. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted from InfoWorld. For more IT news, subscribe to the InfoWorld Daily newsletter. Offline access to Web applications is becoming an important trend, with Adobe ...

A team of AJAX experts is working on a new capability to enable Web applications to work offline. Brad Neuberg, a San Francisco-based software architect and programmer, said that he, along with the ...

While Windows is a powerful operating system for productivity, so much of what we do with work these days revolves around the web. Whatever your browser of choice — Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, or ...

HTML5 offers web developers powerful new features, but spec limitations may prevent it from unseating native apps HTML5 heralds some nifty new features and the potential for sparking a web programming ...

Box.net plans to develop “semi-local” apps for various mobile operating systems using a common HTML5 codebase, in a bid to keep up with the proliferation of smartphone and tablet platforms. Box.net ...