>>>>>>>If you can enforce an HTML5 requirement that shouldn't be a problem. With local storage and offline manifests you can easily create a web page that will work perfectly whilst offline and update when there's a connection available.
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>>>>>>Thanks I'll investigate that. Any suggestions on where to start learning? Same suggestion as Michael so same response :)
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>>>>>For offline pages :
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http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/appcache/beginner/>>>>>or
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http://diveintohtml5.info/offline.html>>>>>
>>>>>For local storage:
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http://diveintohtml5.info/storage.html>>>>>
>>>>>or, for the full nitty-gritty look at the w3c documentation....
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>>>>Thanks!
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>>>Hi Frank
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>>>I juts produced a similar system for a logistics company with signature capture etc One thing you should look out for is some windows phones use an embedded internet explorer that doesn't support some html 5 elements, particularly the canvas element. As the people where tied to the (rubbish) phones by contract we had to use a product called zetakey as their browser which works ok but there is a license cost. Having said that developing in html with local storage was a lot easier than trying to produce a seperate app.
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>>>Nick
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>>Do you have any specific suggestions as to what "html with local storage" approach you used? I am testing a web application (that is almost finished) but I see that some customers will ask for an off-line use. So I need to start learning and maybe incorporating into my pages already. TIA.
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>Hi Dimitry
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>I used webSQL which worked very nicely. Its is deprecated
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/220254/why-is-web-sql-database-deprecated but because I knew what browser would be used that wasn't an issue as it was supported. If I re do the mobile web app to be publicly available I may alter to something else.
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>Here's a websql example.
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http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webdatabase/todo/>
>I used it to store logistics data when the driver was offline and then he could sync it up to a sqlexpress database later. Works very well.
Thank you for your reply, Nick. This is all new to me so I will see (study) how applicable it is for my app. Right now I can even imagine how to do it without some kind of a "light" version of DB engine on a tablet device (maybe this is what webSQL is). Anyway, I will read the references your suggested and maybe I will see the light.
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