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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Greg, thank you for your comments.


> I'm very curious, this caching functionality using HTML5 - are you using
> client-side XML for orgunits,elements, etc? I assume that is how the system
> continues to operate in 'offline' mode?

This technique is a separate W3 spec still in draft but implemented in
most modern browsers called "web storage". It allows data to be
locally stored as plain key/value pairs. How you parse that text is up
to you - we are parsing it as JSON. Nice articles here:

http://diveintohtml5.org/storage.html
http://diveintohtml5.org/offline.html





Lars