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Re:Ask HN: Launch iOS/Android/Both? by jbrkr on Sunday September 25, 2011 @10:38AM (#3035853)
There is offline local storage in HTML5 [1]. It is supported by recent versions of iOS and Android. A local HTTP server should not be necessary.

[1] http://diveintohtml5.org/storage.html

Re:Ask HN: Launch iOS/Android/Both? by sushidev on Sunday September 25, 2011 @11:06AM (#3035899)
Actually 5mb is not enough for our needs but if we put that aside, still there is a problem of where to load the Web App itself from when the device is not online?
Re:Ask HN: Launch iOS/Android/Both? by sushidev on Sunday September 25, 2011 @11:12AM (#3035907)
Or this is where the native wrapper comes in?