On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Gavin Sharp <ga...@gavinsharp.com> > wrote: > > What does it mean to "save your <complex web app> for later viewing"? > > In gmail it would mean saving the set of emails that you are currently > looking at. > > For facebook it would mean the news-feed content that's currently on > the screen, or the event invitation details that you are currently > looking at. > > That's what we would get if we serialized the current DOM+CSS+images > to disk without any additional smarts. And all of these seem useful > for users. > Having the browser store a serialized DOM of the app you're using is not really the best way to address those use cases, IMO. If you care about saving the content of your FB newsfeed or of your Gmail inbox, there are cleaner ways to do that (often explicitly supported by the apps themselves, e.g. "Print this email (to PDF)" on Gmail or "Save this post for later" on Facebook). Gavin _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
