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I hope with their "HTML5 Apps" there will be strong integration with local storage and that the phone will be able to cache all of the assets and JS files etc locally if they are going for "Web apps should be just like native apps".

The problem with "cloud apps" on phones is that you run into the real problems of carrier imposed bandwidth limits and slow connectivity in places.

Apps that have a horrendously slow UI if you are anywhere outside of a major city will not be much fun to use.




Do you really need stronger integration with local storage when you've got HTML5 localstorage?

I don't believe there is anything stopping us from caching all the JS in localstorage already, though I haven't done it yet.

Apparently, you can even store images in localstorage http://robnyman.github.com/html5demos/localstorage/


Ideally it would be nice to have something that caches stuff in local storage and can make offline copies of HTML pages and JS by default.


You mean like App Cache? http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/appcache/beginner/




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