2 commentsOffline Gmail!
An experimental offline feature for Gmail was released yesterday. Here’s a quick video describing the feature:
I’ve been testing this for a while, and I’ve found that it’s useful on my laptop even if I’m not in an airplane (the quintessential use case). If your connection is slow, or it goes in and out, try Flaky Connection Mode. That’ll make your mail work offline but will sync in the background. The feature definitely experiences problems from time to time, but it’s really simple to turn it on and off, so I recommend giving it a try.
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This looks super useful. I just hope the Gears APIs and Firefox’s built-in offline support will converge on a standard API soon. (I hear they’re both closing in on the proposal in HTML5.)
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s where it’s heading. Implementing offline gmail was a huge task, so I’m sure they’re not looking to make things harder by maintaining code for incompatible APIs in the future. (plus it’s the right thing to do, obviously)
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