Offline functionality
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No headersIf this is deployed successfully for an enterprise, the challenge of mobile workers cannot be ignored. Whilst 'always on' is desirable, it is not yet a reality by any stretch of the imagination.
Having access to project information avaliable in the corporate wiki, particularly information relating to the projects you are currently working on, accessible during project meetings is very desirable (I think).
Google Gears is 'beta software offered by Google to enable off-line access to services that normally only work on-line'.
Better still, it appears you can do it with Greasemonkey and Firefox, without doing much to Deki Wiki.
"GearsMonkey: Google Gears + Greasemonkey to take Wikipedia offline
By using Google Gears with the Firefox Greasemonkey plugin, you can inject Gears code into any website that you want. Don't wait for your favorite website to enable offline support -- do it yourself."
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I wonder if anyone more techy than me would like to take up the challenge of writing a greasemonkey script and putting a tutorial based on theone from the above quote...
Another option to build an offline functionality could be using Tiddlywiki; adapters and formatters for Socialtext, Confluence, Wikispaces and other wikis (most notably Mediawiki...) are already available.
Here someone more adept than me in coding js can find the code of the various plugins: http://www.martinswiki.com/
giulio 22 September 2008
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The other assumption that the wiki makes is that the Internet is always available and as many of us mobile workers know this is not always the case and sometimes expensive when it is - major drawback of cloud computing until the www becomes universal and cheap.