We make enterprise SaaS products with Rails. It's starting to look like we're going to need some kind of limited "Offline Mode" for the apps, because many of our customers have remote locations with ...

Google engineers have enabled what Internet surfers for years have yearned for--Web applications that work offline. The search giant on Wednesday launched Google Gears, a browser plug-in that will let ...

CouchDB, an Apache project providing a Web-accessible, key-value database, is emerging as an essential technology for running Web applications offline. CouchDB, which is being updated this week with ...