Thanks for clarifying that. I hadn't tried using the offline/ applicationCache functionality via Chrome Frame. I looked around for more information and saw this bug report/issue describing the problem, basically what you outlined. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=53211
On Feb 6, 9:40 pm, Martijn van de Rijdt <[email protected]> wrote: > In my testing Google Frame does not provide the applicationCache to IE > either (it does provide localStorage to IE6 and IE7, not sure about Web > SQL). It kind of makes sense because I believe Google Frame only starts > doing its thing (take over) once it has read the special meta tag - so after > the page is retrieved from the server. > > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:25 PM, <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Today's Topic Summary > > > Group:http://groups.google.com/group/gears-users/topics > > > - do i initialize localserver & set manifest on EVERY page > > session?<#12dfdf02f65efc6f_group_thread_0>[1 Update] > > > Topic: do i initialize localserver & set manifest on EVERY page > > session?<http://groups.google.com/group/gears-users/t/c9404b92f99238a1> > > > MarkS <[email protected]> Feb 05 07:41PM -0800 > > ^<#12dfdf02f65efc6f_digest_top> > > > I think Gears was deprecated too soon. Hopefully Google will continue > > to support it and keep it working for a while longer until the similar > > features in HTML5 get sorted out, fully implemented and established. > > > For example, the need is for a local database and an offline app > > cache. > > > The HTML5 Web SQL Database spec appears to be dead. [ > > http://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/] > > This was implemented in Chrome and Safari I think, will it continue to > > be supported in future versions or will it end up being deprecated > > since it is not part of the html5 spec? It likely won't be implemented > > in Firefox or IE. > > > IndexedDB is not fully implemented yet. [ > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_(HTML_5)#Re... > > ] > > This appears to be the HTML5 database spec going forward. This is > > probably the one to use for a local db, but not quite yet? It looks > > like IE9/Firefox,/Chrome will support it. > > > For offline app cache, IE/Trident is a 'no' on the Wikipedia chart. > > That's a problem if your customers use IE. You'd need to use Google > > Chrome Frame in IE to get offline app functionality. > > > Will Google Chrome Frame continue to be supported for IE9, or only for > > IE6,7,8? > > > On Feb 3, 4:38 pm, Michael Nordman <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > --http://www.linkedin.com/in/martijnvanderijdt
