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[Alexander Limi]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:17:27 -0800,  
<rgregory at oxfam.org.uk> wrote:

>  Are there any plans for Plone to support mobile/off line working?

This is indeed something we'd like to support — and as other people here  
note, it would have to be with something similar to a replication strategy  
that synced back and forth and handled conflicts (if any).

Ideally, you should be able to run Plone on a laptop, select an area of  
the site that you want to "take home", and perform edits on it and sync  
back later. This would assume that you have the same products installed on  
your laptop, but should be doable. Most Plone content is easily diffable  
and mergable, seeing as it's HTML-centric.

Unfortunately, this is not a trivial undertaking, and until a couple of  
companies/organizations pool together on getting something like this  
built, I doubt it will be done.

We were discussing this a while back under the moniker "Mobile Plone", and  
I believe Paul (Everitt) has some interesting ideas on it too. It's always  
been one of the things that everybody wants, but nobody has a big enough  
need for to actually start developing seriously.

I do believe that there are many more NGOs that would be interested in  
something like this now than when we last discussed it, so it should be  
possible now if the resources are there.

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