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December 21, 2005
Cantrell on occasional connectivity
Cantrell on occasional connectivity: Christian Cantrell has a great user-oriented essay about the classic web-app situation of requiring a network connection in order to work. He lists some examples of where a pure server-based approach has hurt users, and the essay is even more timely due to additional problems at Typepad and Salesforce.com. We'll have to have our data stored remotely, not only for backup but also for multi-device synch, but I think we'll also have to be able to work offline with local static data too, synching up with the server as it becomes available. Whether you can get your work done or not shouldn't depend on what someone else is doing with a server that day....
Posted by John Dowdell at December 21, 2005 2:40 PM