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Offline view of dynamic content?

I want to view dynamic contents (flash games, online transaction...etc) offline. For example, I finish level 1 of this cool flash RPG game. I go offline and play the level again. Or, I make a purchase. And make the purchase again offline. Of course this won't do anything. It will be strictly for demonstration purpose. Or, I watch a ...

SO's question box and preview

This question is based on this thread in Meta. I would like to have an offline access to SO's editor and to its preview such that I can type fast. Editor I found the following HTML of the question box. <div class="resizable-textarea" id="wmd-container"> <div id="wmd-button-bar"><ul id="wmd-button-row"><li class="wmd-button" i...

How do I make a WiX installer with a completely self-contained .NET 3.5 sp1 installer?

I need to include the full .NET 3.5 sp1 installer into my installer, which is in WiX. I need that boostrapper to be entirely self contained, with no web access at all. It is just not allowed for this installer to require the web; we have customers in outer Mongolia (I'm serious, not just using the place name because it's remote) to who...

iPhone web apps running as native apps

The browser on the iPhone is capable of using advanced web technologies introduced in HTML5. One of these is the app cache that allows web pages to run on the client, from the cache, without a connection to the internet. Together with Local Storage you can also save data permanently "in" the page. My question is, would it then be possib...

Library for Caching Web Pages on iPhone?

Is there a library or framework that I can use to cache web pages locally for offline viewing on iPhone? If not, what's the best strategy for doing so? Currently what I'm thinking of doing is downloading the HTML, harvesting its URLs, caching those URLs, then rewriting the HTML to point to local files. Is that the best way to do it? Th...

Offline database access under Silverlight-3

As the Silverlight team worked through the betas, one glaring pain point that is existing in the realm of Silverlight 3 is the ability to have an offline database, so that you can right-click on the SL application, install it locally, and then be able to manipulate data in a local setting, without the Internet. I've read a few articles ...

Push data from local application to browser

I have c++ application to monitor local computer and a HTML5 webpage (offline support) to show statistics. At present my application send data through server to webpage, but it works only on online. Now I want to support full offline mode, so i need to push data directly to webpage to fire javascript events. Is this possible? And is this...

Which browsers support html5 offline storage?

Essentially, I wanted to run a piece of demo code from W3c Offline Webapps page. It looks like that: var db = window.openDatabase("notes", "", "The Example Notes App!", 1048576); Firefox 3.5, IE8 and Chrome do not seem to get it. Is there anybody out there that actually wrote support for that? Or is this wishful thinking about 'the s...

Classic ASP VBScript offline reference

I don't do a slew of VB in classic ASP, so I'm looking for an offline reference I can use while I'm well...offline. General syntax and ADO goodies are a plus! Thanks in advance! ...

Opening offline cube from another machine

Here is the steps to my problem: I have a MOLAP cube with MOLAP dimensions on the AS2008 server I connect to it with Excel 2007 and save it in a local cube file (.cub) I disconnect from network, then I try to open the offline cub file through excel. It is successful. I copy the .cub file to another machine, start Excel, try to connect ...

Subversion Proxy for working offline?

What is the best approach for working at a customers site (with several people) where there maybe not internet access the whole time and using a subversion repository? (Migrating to Git or Mecurial is out of the question at the moment) But wouldn't it be possible to leverage something like, for instance the Git SVN Integration, to crea...

Best Practice for synchronizing common distributed data

I have a internet application that supports offline mode where users might create data that will be synchronized with the server when the user comes back online. So because of this I'm using UUID's for identity in my database so the disconnected clients can generate new objects without fear of using an ID used by another client, etc. H...

JavaFx Offline ability?

Recently we are looking for the possibility to use JavaFX as an offline RIA client. The idea is that user can use the netbook to work on the app with or without internet connection. With internet connection, user can interact with server through web services. Without internet connection, data and transaction will be stored on client an...

Xcode 3.2 offline documentation?

I've upgraded to Xcode 3.2 and I'm searching for the offline documentation / reference library that was always available for the previous versions of Xcode. When I go to menu Help -> Developer Documentation I get the reference library but when I search for any term like NSViewController the pop up keeps showing up (annoyingly) telling m...

Iphone App vs. Offline Web App. Which way is the smartest?

I think about starting from scratch building a small application fullfilling two technical requirements: should be usable on iPhone should work offline There are two obvious alternatives here to choose between A real iPhone application with offline capabilities A web app using HTML5 offline, Google Gears or similar Having no iPho...

iPhone load map offline tiles

Hello, i'm trying to start a project that will present a map and drop some pins for the museums in my town. I played with map kit and route-me from Cloudmade so i'm not a stranger to them. I want to try something like OffMaps does, to use maps offline but i want to provide the tiles from the start. I downloaded the tiles from OpenStree...

How to validate an url on the iPhone

In an iPhone app I am developing, there is a setting in which you can enter a URL, because of form & function this URL needs to be validated online as well as offline. So far I haven't been able to find any method to validate the url, so the question is; How do I validate an URL input on the iPhone (Objective-C) online as well as offli...

Offline synchronization options with .NET

I've been asked to research approaches to deal with an app we're supposed to be building. This app, hypothetically a Windows form written in C#, will issue commands directly to the server if it's connected, but if the app is offline, the state must be maintained as if it was connected and then sync up and issue data changes/commands to t...

Detect If Offline - in C# WebBrowser component?

We're working on a wrapped WebBrowser component. We'd like to display one page (e.g. oursite.com/thispage.html) if the user is online and another page (e.g. C:\somewhere\thispage_offline.html) if the user is offline. I'm able to to properly display both pages, but my issue is detecting the online/offline status. I tried WebBrowser.Is...

External JSON data with offline development

I am developing a web app that accesses some external JSON data. I'm currently using jQuery's getJSON to get the data and call the callback. My internet at home is terrible, so I'm regularly not connected. I am looking for a way to develop this app while disconnected from the internet. My initial thought was to have an OFFLINE variabl...