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ipod touch need safari online to work webapps
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Hello
Does anyone know if the ipod touch needs to be online (wi-fi) to use a safari webapplication like a calculator or others listed here
Apple - Web apps - Calculate
or are these applications resident in the device and can they be used offline?
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ooh good Q i want to know too
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How else would you access those pages? iPhone Safari doesn't keep fully cached pages like desktop browsers might, so I'm assuming the Touch is the same.
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A web app is just a web site. That's it, nothing special. The website either needs to be stored locally for offline viewing, which the Touch currently doesn't do, or you need online access like any other site.
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Nov 2000
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I would say yes, it needs to be online. You could load up the page first and maybe use it offline in some cases, but mobile Safari is very quick to purge its cache (often just switching between windows will cause it to reload the page), and I wouldn't be surprised if switching to other apps would also trigger this. So in other words, while it might be possible to use some apps off-line in some cases, it probably wouldn't be a good idea to count on being able to do so.
Being able to save web pages (and web apps) would make the whole "no SDK" thing a lot more palatable. It's pretty obvious that Apple isn't really taking advantage of the touch's abilities, and that it has wifi and Safari mostly because they wanted it to be able to use the iTunes wifi store.
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I believe we are seeing the beginning of how apps will be used, online web apps. I read some stories about 5 years ago talking about moving applications from the user's computer to the companies/owners servers. This would pretty much stop software piracy as you would need to log onto there servers through the web to do whatever work your doing. Microsoft was one of the companies pushing this (from what I had read). You pay for access to use there software (fee based). If you look at the iPod touch, instead of apple allowing apps to be installed, you go online to use the apps. I can see how this could control piracy, this could kill your pocket book to pay for these services. Hopefully alot of third party companies will be allowed to build these apps which inturn keep the prices down. My guess, 5 years or so, "most" apps will be web "pay as you go" based.
Randy
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2010 Mac Mini, 32GB iPod Touch, 2 Apple TV (1)
Home built 12 core 2.93 Westmere PC (almost half the cost of MP) Win7 64.
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Web apps - is this no different than what Google has done - email, spreadsheet, docs, address book, calendar? Go to a terminal anywhere in the world via an internet cafe and you have access to your online profile. I rather like it. I don't always need a full PC when I just want to update a quick file. I'm no longer tied to a Windows desktop app nor having to maintain patches for their product. Web apps definitely have a place in our world these days.
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