Kevin Markman: Taking Web Apps Offline

The story behind Google Docs Offline and some of the fantastic hacks put in place to make it work. We changed people's mindsets to "think offline" while re-architecting the apps to not rely on the network. Moving an internet company offline involves some hard work and has some serious challenges (performance, cross-browser compatibility, platform bugs, etc). For reuse of this video under a more permissive license please get in touch with us. The speakers retain the copyright for their performances.