I’m always reminded of the Gartner Hype Cycle whenever I read about offline technologies for browsers. Microsoft was deathly afraid of these things in 1999. 8 long years later, we’re finally to the point where we can do the things they were freaked about. The funny thing? Microsoft has a competitive project that will allow them to play in the market too.

Another random thought: Assuming that SQLite is the backend of choice here, will we get to the fabled “db-like filesystem” through it rather than the more technically rigorous (but as yet incomplete) actual filesystem with DB properties? OS X ships with SQLite for apps to use as well, and it is becoming the choice for everything including Rails prototyping.

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