I’ve been pondering offline webapps recently, and it seems I’m not the only one 
I’m not sure that I agree with mnot, I think something more substantial is necessary but that’s a gut feeling, not really a considered opinion. (As an aside I should probably think more deeply before posts like this and I can they are increasing in number and don’t really offer much)
One example that I played with for 10 mins today is wikiCalc which is a web publishing tool based on the spreadsheet metaphor. The use of the metaphor is really clear and is an easy way of introducing lightweight server side programming to business types who today don’t venture outside Excel.
The bit relevant to this post is that it is distributed as a perl script which can either be run on the desktop or a server with publishing between client and server. When running on the client it is still accessed through a web browser. This is very simplistic way of thinking about the problem but people keep telling me that IBM solutions are too complex so I’m open to starting with simple solutions.
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