5 thoughts on “Dojo Offline Toolkit

  1. Interesting idea but I’ve got all kinds of questions about how well it would integrate with WordPress (assuming a developer will take the time to look at the toolkit and create a plug-in or hack to enable it’s use). With wordpress.com it would probably be okay but for those of us with our own wordpress installs (and all the custom layouts/plugins with it) I think it will be a much harder app to implement. That’s not to say I don’t hope something like this works 😉

  2. Hi Darren and Jonathan, I’m not sure how it would work with WordPress. It requires that some of the application logic be written in JavaScript, so it can work offline; it is very compatible with Ajax/DHTML oriented web apps like Gmail. It might be possible to create some JavaScript that recreates parts of the WordPress interface when offline, perhaps a simple client-side XSLT script even, and store your data into the Dojo Offline cache when offline…. thats how I would do it. The application would know when you go offline, since the Dojo Offline API would provide this; when that happens, the JavaScript/XSLT part would take over. Links or buttons that would normally invoke server code would simply invoke the client-side JavaScript instead, so you would get an editing form for creating or modifying a blog post, for example. This would actually be pretty fun to create.

    Best,
    Brad Neuberg
    bkn3@columbia.edu
    codinginparadise.org

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