Re: [PLUG] Offline apps for Chromebook

[Carl Johnson <cjohnson19791979@gmail.com>]

F.Y.I..... they're dropping ext3/4 support for external drives.

On October 14, 2014 7:34:14 AM EDT, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com> wrote:
>>
>> I didn't think you could do much of anything on a Chromebook
>> without a network connect.  Doesn't it really push the idea of
>> keeping everything in the cloud?
>
>It does, but html5 supports offline storage and more apps are starting
>to handle that.
>
>I believe Google docs does:
>https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375012?p=offline_set_up&hl=en&rd=1
>
>There is also an offline Gmail app that works, though it is a bit
>primitive compared to the normal one.
>
>Generally offline applications still are cloud-based, but they cache
>data locally and sync when online.
>
>The Chrome Web Store has a collection of offline-enabled apps:
>https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/collection/offline_enabled?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
>
>Quite a few apps are now offline-enabled compared to when I first
>started using ChromeOS.  It is worth noting that these apps work
>offline on any device running Chrome, including under Windows, OSX,
>and Linux.  Also, offline data storage is an html5 feature, so it
>might be possible to do some of this stuff using other browsers, but I
>haven't looked into this (I'm not sure if you can just punch
>drive.google.com into mozilla while disconnected and run offline from
>the cache, etc).  Chrome apps are packaged up and locally installed,
>though many are still basically just URL redirectors (ie bookmarks
>that show up in the app list).
>
>--
>Rich
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