#3889 NORM Untriag: Caching of pages for offline reading (global bookmarks)

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#3889: Caching of pages for offline reading (global bookmarks)
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  Reporter:  erikos       |       Owner:  erikos   
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Untriaged
 Component:  web browser  |     Version:           
Resolution:               |    Keywords:           
  Verified:  0            |  
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Comment(by Eben):

 I still think that this is a really important use case, as I suspect that
 kids won't have persistent internet access.  Allowing them to "download" a
 page to read at whim later seems like a really big win with our intention
 of making information easily available. Of course, I don't think anyone
 here is disputing that.

 For now, we could simply hide the bookmarks (eg. not make them global, but
 retain the offline viewing portion).  Starring a page within a given
 session could simply store the associated data within that sessions entry.
 Resuming that particular entry/session would then reveal the cached pages,
 with a non-modal alert indicating that the page is cached, and optionally
 providing a button to refresh it.  All of this can be done with no
 security implications whatsoever.

 In the future we can enhance this by exposing the bookmark as a separate
 Journal entry and by allowing them to span sessions.

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