Filed under: iPod Family, Rumors, iPhone
HTML5 Client Side Database Storage + iPhone = ???
Will the next iPhone firmware release support client-side database storage? That's what TUAW reader Jorge believes. Way back in October, we saw the HTML5 standard promising client-side persistence for Webkit-based browsers. Jorge apparently ran a client-side SQL check on the new Simulator-based Safari and found that it ran properly. Of course, simulator tests do not mean actual 1.2/2.0 implementation and we have no way of verifying whether this functionality extends to the actual iPhone firmware.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Erik said 10:15PM on 3-31-2008
The video "iPhone SDK for Web Developers" at http://developer.apple.com/iphone/ covers numerous new features in Safari to be released with the 1.2 update.
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K2 said 3:53PM on 3-31-2008
I believe in the "iPhone SDK for Web Developers" video, they talk about this being included.
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Bubloo said 4:10PM on 3-31-2008
Yeah, this feature was confirmed long ago on iTunes with the "iPhone SDK for Web Developers" video. Along with a client-side databases, there will also be full-screen web apps (no chrome), new CSS3 features, SVG support, and better Javascript support.
See here: http://ajaxian.com/archives/iphone-sdk-for-web-developers
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Jehel said 4:59PM on 3-31-2008
Next step for Google: no need to install google gear, simply use a web browser compatible with HTML 5. After Gmail, Google docs is already available offline
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/03/bringing-cloud-with-you.html
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Christopher Lyon Anderson said 6:56PM on 3-31-2008
If you try the following page on the iphone:
http://webkit.org/misc/DatabaseExample.html
Create a few notes, then go to the settings menu you'll see in Safari a new section called Database!
Cool!
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Christopher Lyon Anderson said 7:11PM on 3-31-2008
I meant to say that I tried this on the emulator and not the real phone...
aj_robins said 7:33PM on 3-31-2008
I'd be happy with google gears for the iPhone ... ;-)
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Christopher Lyon Anderson said 8:28PM on 4-30-2008
For those interested I've blogged about this feature at http://www.lyonanderson.com
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