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For many offline capabilities that work well and seamlessly are something that must be perfected before Google Apps can be accepted as a true productivity tool. Are you in that camp and how close has Google gotten to that ideal?
I'm not likely to be "in the camp" as long as Google Apps still stores cleartext data. I'll trust a third party hosted service when it encrypts on my local machine transfring and storing only cyphertext on the hosted systems.
Google has smart people. Let them write something more like Lastpass; only ever see's user data already encrypted yet still managed to share data between users.
Not to be completely off topic; this change is a nice step in the right direction. They need to provide more complete basic functionality offline and it needs to be browser/platform agnostic. Non of this "only works with *our* browser" crap.. use standard functions that are supported or can be implemented in other browsers.
Google has smart people. Let them write something more like Lastpass; only ever see's user data already encrypted yet still managed to share data between users.
Not to be completely off topic; this change is a nice step in the right direction. They need to provide more complete basic functionality offline and it needs to be browser/platform agnostic. Non of this "only works with *our* browser" crap.. use standard functions that are supported or can be implemented in other browsers.
The cloud has obvious flaws that people who live in rual areas already know. It ain't cloudy every where all the time. So google wants to come out of the cloud, sort of, and microsoft wants to go in. If your stuff is in the cloud is it only one step away from public domain?
Will this offline functionality be available to Chrome (the browser) users, or just Chromebook/Chrome O/S users?
Far as I can tell, "ChromeOS" is simply making use of the HTML5 features already built into Google Chrome browser. Users running Google Chrome (the browser) should see the same funcationality as users running Google ChromeOS (the thinclient OS).
My understanding matches Neon - it is a Chrome thing - OS or browser. At some point they will have to make it available for all browsers - HTML5 is the key.
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