I Feel the Need to Write.
Though, I don’t know what about.
My friend felt that he needed to update his blog a few days ago. I told him to go home, drink some absinthe and then ramble. While I don’t have absinthe, I can still ramble. If only it would turn out as hilarious.
Apple released Safari 3.1 today. What I’m most excited about is the addition of the client side DB from the HTML 5 spec. Of course in typical Apple fashion it’s SQLite based. Microsoft has recently added the same storage to the IE8 beta, and Mozilla has had a (somewhat limited) implementation since Firefox 2.
What does this mean? More fast loading web apps like Gmail. Offline access to content that will (hopefully) seamlessly update any changes as soon as you get connected again. Also it will provide much more storage then the aging cookies have offered.
The main reason I’m looking forward to more apps supporting this is for my iPhone. The 2.0 software will have the same WebKit updates that Safari 3.1 has, including this client side DB. Being in Canada, I’m tethered to high data rates and sketchy networks. I do not pay for a data plan. While wireless is semi-ubiquitous, open networks aren’t always available. This is prime time for a client side DB. If I suddenly need access to the directions to a meeting that are in my inbox, what better way then pull up gmail (because lets face it, Mobile Mail is far from perfect) and have all my old messages ready for me, no reloading, no network.
And that kids, is what gets me excited.