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Re:Google Chrome OS will have no native apps, data will be s... by steveklabnik on Thursday November 19, 2009 @01:53PM (#950796)
When I submitted this, the story was half-told. Apparently, Gears will still be allowed to store some things locally. But all data will be synched to the cloud automatically at all times.
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Re:Google Chrome OS will have no native apps, data will be s... by tvon on Thursday November 19, 2009 @03:23PM (#951006)
Yes, HTML5 (and more importantly, webkit) supports offline storage: http://webkit.org/blog/126/webkit-does-html5-client-side-dat...
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Re:Google Chrome OS will have no native apps, data will be s... by txxxxd on Thursday November 19, 2009 @02:33PM (#950890)
I think the local disk will probably just be used as a cache to support offline mode.
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Re:Google Chrome OS will have no native apps, data will be s... by steveklabnik on Thursday November 19, 2009 @02:51PM (#950938)
As someone pointed out to me on Reddit, apparently HTML5 has offline storage provisions, so it'll be used for that too.
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