On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 15:28, Bilal Akhtar <bilalakh...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > I don't understand why Firefox (or Internet Explorer) has an offline > > mode at all. > > It is very much helpful for DSL users as well. Sometimes, I want to > avoid my browser add-ons from unnecessarily accessing web resources > while something large is being downloaded or I am voice-chatting. > well i can turn Empathy on and off via the Me Menu already, so that's already a smart thing to do with a web-application as i learn from that.. "Offline Mode" in a web application has security, privacy, economy, performance and workflow use cases, all already stated in this thread. "on", "connected" should be the 2 states a web application should express for semantic correctness. I thought of "off" and its derivatives.. these point not to a state, but to the absense of a state, which is not useful information! We want to be aware of stuff that's on, every thing else would be a big fat (ORANGE) error, in hardware failure warning cases perhaps a red error. This solves a lot of logical problems we have in interface technology today.. especially in our own UI at hand right here..
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