02.23.09
Skids
Last year, I wrote an article for the Reg about Google’s need for a mobile web platform which has Gears like functionality. There are a couple of ways of achieving this on S60, one is the Gears plug-in (a non starter on S60), develop your own browser (Firefox are doing this, and Chrome may or may not appear on mobile), or wait for the built in browser to implement the relevant HTML5 standards which allow interfacing with client side databases.
As I mentioned previously, the support for “canvas” tag in the HTML5 spec fills the need to draw arbitrary shapes, and Google demoed the potential of dropping Gears in favour of standard HTML5.0 primitives at MWC:
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/02/18/video-offline-gmail-web-app-for-webkit-browser-phones-demoed/
So all this standards love in is all coming together nicely, with the palm Pre getting in on the action. But I found it hard to find information about S60’s web browser and HTML5 support, anyone know?
Matt Davies said,
February 24, 2009 at 11:50 am
What I’m wondering is how the sync is done when you go back online…I’ve just had a look at the spec, but most of it has ‘The API here needs rewriting. Don’t implement this right now.’ written all over the place, so I’m not going to spend too much time digging. I guess they’ll probably upload the locally modified entries and let the server handle it all…