Firefox 3 + Offline Support?

Firefox 3 to support offline web application support
Posted in Tech, Cool by Derek at 5:00 pm

Read/WriteWeb [via] has an interesting and promising article that supports the idea that Firefox 3 will offer offline support for everyones favorite web apps including Gmail among others.

An interesting tidbit came out of the recent Foo Camp New Zealand (which unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend). Robert O’Callahan from Mozilla, who is based in NZ but drives the rendering engine of Mozilla/FireFox, spoke about how Firefox 3 will deliver support for offline applications. This is significant because you’ll be able to use your web apps - like Gmail, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, etc - in the browser even when offline. I deliberately mentioned all Google web apps there, because of course this plays right into Google’s hands.

Looks like Firefox is going to play an integral role in squashing the idea that consumers should have to pay for productivity software. Farewell Microsoft Office, I won’t miss you. Will anyone else? Aside from the corp. zombies forced into using the MS line, who else is going to miss being locked to an application?

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