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[Martin Collins <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2013-10-30 08:28, Frédéric Van Der Essen wrote:
>
> Offline mode is an interesting feature, but it has a very
> very high cost on the complexity and evolution of the pos. That is
> because supporting something offline means that we have to implement it
> in javascript in an interoperable way with the server.
...
> So there will always be feature available on the server and missing on
> the POS.
...
> Supporting a large number of products (> 16 000) is currently made very
> difficult by the fact that browser database do not support full text
> search and thus we are limited by the performance of javascript search.

Have you considered running an instance of openerp-server on the posbox
and using postgres replication to sync with the main server when online?
Crazy? Not as crazy as rewriting it in javascript...

Martin