Linux.com | Bringing Web-based applications offline

The Web 2.0 mantra suggests that you forget desktop applications and embrace AJAXified browser-based apps that you can run from any OS, anywhere, as long as you have a speedy connection to the Internet. But what about times when you can’t get online? Firefox, Opera, and others are looking to make it possible run applications offline, anytime, anywhere.

Long overdue in my opinion. When looking at Google Apps I asked my Google contact about mobile device support and they replied that there were optimised version of the web pages for mobile devices. That wasn’t really what I had in mind. I often work on the train with no internet access, even if I was willing to pay data charges on my mobile phone.

In the meantime, this clever little app called gSyncit provides a way to take your Google Calendar with you via Outlook and ActivSync