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vks
vks

Reputation: 319

what is the purpose of Offline mode in a web browser?

What is actually the purpose of offline mode. does it somehow manages the caching system of the browser. or it just skips the host resolution part, dont know for what. what probably the designer had in mind, when he developed the offline mode feature.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3413

Answers (9)

Hashim
Hashim

Reputation: 1

As my experience, normally offline servers are using while online servers are down or accessibility problem with our web server via internet, meanwhile we are using our offline server to get the informations. Then once the web server is up then we can synchronic the datas from offline server to online server.

Upvotes: 0

James
James

Reputation: 3275

I wonder if it will became more used in the west these days as people with net-books and other ultra portable devices travel round lots? While wi-fi hot spots and 3g data connections are popular they are still not universal.

I know when I designed my html/javascript open source chess clock, I deliberately designed it to work off-line very easily, so I could just download it onto my netbook and meet my chess friends in cafes without having to worry if the cafe had a good wifi signal or not.

Now, where's the "Blatant Plug" tag?

Upvotes: 1

Alan Haggai Alavi
Alan Haggai Alavi

Reputation: 74272

As has been stated by David Johnstone, I used to use the Offline Mode during dial-up days for reading articles/pages from cache when connection to the internet was disconnected.

Upvotes: 0

Ganesh R.
Ganesh R.

Reputation: 4385

It helps you to may be browse through a site fast & with a large cache size set , U go to offline mode & read the pages with your Time based Internet connection switched off.

Upvotes: 0

David Johnstone
David Johnstone

Reputation: 24470

It's something that most of us wouldn't use very often, but it was useful in the past when we used dial-up modems (and especially for those of us who had time limited plans). You could connect to the internet, go to a website, quickly browse through everything you thought could be useful, disconnect, go to offline mode and then browse through the site as though you were connected (for everything was cached).

I didn't realise browsers still had them (I can't remember the last time I went to the File menu in Firefox though).

Upvotes: 2

nightingale2k1
nightingale2k1

Reputation: 10335

in developed countries (asia especially), internet are rare and expensive (there are quota or time based) so offline is very good feature to have for them.

Sometimes you are out and you need to check something on web .. you can use that offline cache.

Upvotes: 1

RichieHindle
RichieHindle

Reputation: 281795

It doesn't try to access the network, but instead fetches all content from the cache.

Upvotes: 1

hasen
hasen

Reputation: 166312

I think it's something from the old days, where connections were mostly dial-up (read: slow, and not always connected), and browsers relied on caching material off-line, so if you're not connected, you'd see the cached version in an off-line mode.

I guess it still applies to countries that still don't have DSL everywhere.

Upvotes: 2

Tyler
Tyler

Reputation: 22136

You might use it to find out what happens to people who are using your web application if their internet connection is flaky or drops out. You can also use it if you're only interested in accessing local files, not websites.

Upvotes: 1

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