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by awt 5708 days ago
I have an app running on Heroku. Interestingly, it caches itself using HTML 5 application cache, so most people won't even notice the site is down. Need to make sure the background network ops are fault tolerant though.
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Interesting. Care to share what you're doing/what the heck that means?
http://motodiaryapp.com -- of course if Heroku is down and it's not already cached for you it won't load. This is the technology the site uses to allow offline access: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
That is really awesome. I just got back from playing with it between Chrome on an old 800MHz P-III (very usable) and an Android (Nexus One). On the Nexus, I went off-line (airplane mode), edited, and then went back on-line. MAGIC! My edits showed up in my Chrome browser on the desktop.

My use case is that I want to use Google Docs (or equivalent) to keep notes while on-line and off-line. MotoDiary ain't quite there yet, but it has the hard part (IMHO), the on-line/off-line syncing. What is rough is text size and fixed(?) edit box size on the Android. Also (obviously), it is diary-oriented (single entry per day) rather than supporting multiple documents.

Google Docs are totally uneditable (?WTF!) on Android, never mind doing it off-line and syncing.

There are some Apps that work better, such as GDocs. GDocs has been a mixed bag, it allows me to edit off-line and sync docs, but has been iffy in terms of success rate. It definitely isn't as smooth as my brief experience with MotoDiary.

Wow, that opened my eyes! That use case didn't occur to me. I might have to add that to my box of treats, especially since I have apps on Heroku too.

(Love you really, Heroku).