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From: Craig on 14 Apr 2010 14:40
On 04/14/2010 09:24 AM, Dave wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:01:47 +0100, Martin Jay wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:08:40 -0500, onloiner wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/14/
> google_docs_to_lose_offline_support/
>>> Google's online document and spreadsheet editors will no longer
>>> offer offline access as of May 3, and it's unclear when it will
>>> return.
>>
>> So it's back to Open Office, etc, for those of who can't be
>> certain we'll have access to Google's cloud 24/7?
>>
>> Where's my trusted USB stick...
>
> It's a temporary part of their conversion to HTML5.From the article:
> ""As a result, we need to temporarily remove offline support for
> Docs starting May 3rd, 2010. We know that this is an important
> feature for some of you, and we are working hard to bring a new and
> improved HTML5- based offline option back to Google Docs."
>
> They know they have to have offline capability to stay competitive.

And apart from that, there's a google team dedicated to the portability
of your data...

> The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose
> singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in
> and out of Google products. We do this because we believe that you
> should be able to export any data that you create in (or import into)
> a product. We help and consult other engineering teams within Google
> on how to "liberate" their products.

<http://www.dataliberation.org/home>

--
-Craig
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