I'm using Firefox nightly. The first time I visited the Voice Memo page, a little notification box on the bottom left informed me that the app is ready for offline use.
...How do I access it when I am offline? I looked around for a new tool bar button, etc, but found nothing.
EDIT: All I have to do is visit the same URL, while offline. ...This means that Firefox doesn't always do a DNS lookup when you type in a URL... Hm.
This sounds like a feature request in favor of an 'offline apps' drawer somewhere :)
As for the DNS lookup, not sure what it does, but couldn't Firefox just fall back to looking at the offline store if it can't connect to the site? (where it looks for updates by checking the manifest)
Yep, that is pretty much the same with any site that supports either AppCache or ServiceWorker... Wondering if the "Hm" is a frustration or something else?
The "hm" is frustration/resignation about the constant pressure to dumb everything down... Resulting in everything being worse.
There was a time when you had to type the "http"... (You know, to distinguish from gopher://!)
I was happy to type that in, because it informed my mental model of what would happen when I pushed enter: My machine would request that resource from this host. The request would be in the form specified by that protocol, as would be the response.
In my mind, a URL like https://voice-memos.appspot.com/ represents a remote resource. Specifically, a resource in appspot's domain...
There are plenty of ways they could have addressed these local apps differently.
Using .Mp3 format probably violates the patent. But what if you roll out your own compressor using the same FFT Technology?
Did you research this option? You are basically converting time domain waveform into frequency domain, then removing the frequency that doesn't matter much thus causing lossy compression of the music.
...How do I access it when I am offline? I looked around for a new tool bar button, etc, but found nothing.
EDIT: All I have to do is visit the same URL, while offline. ...This means that Firefox doesn't always do a DNS lookup when you type in a URL... Hm.