881355 - tofumatt's quick and easy guide to offline-capable apps {as seen on TV}

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Ecosystem :: App Center, defect)

Description

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Let's augment <https://marketplace.firefox.com/developers/docs/apps_offline> with the things we learned this quarter.

In particular, I would like to see:
- a (maybe) one-liner why you should use: appcache, localstorage, asyncstorage, indexeddb
- pros and cons for each
- links to more in-depth resources

Add a short code example to each.

Keep it concise, though, you're not writing the reference documentation for these APIs.

If you don't know what docs to link to for these things, Mark might be able to help.

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Packaged apps actually are another way to make your app "offline-capable", so we should mention that. Also if you go packaged you probably don't need an appcache file(?).

Comment 2

[tofumatt [:tofumatt]]

Attachment: Pointer to Github pull request: https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/pull/858/files

Pointer to Github pull-request

Comment 3

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Why is this still open? Is the PR blocked on anything?

Comment 4

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/commit/7e2865e9

Very sorry for the delay - next time please *bug* us on GitHub on IRC =)