#3889 HIGH FutureF: 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:  high             |   Milestone:  FutureFeatures  
  Component:  browse-activity  |     Version:                  
 Resolution:                   |    Keywords:  Offline Browsing
Next_action:  design           |    Verified:  0               
  Blockedby:                   |    Blocking:                  
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Changes (by adgor):

  * keywords:  => Offline Browsing
  * priority:  normal => high
  * next_action:  => design


Comment:

 Eben has explained the terms needed perfectly.

 ''Bookmark: A combination of the former definitions for both session and
 global bookmarks. When created, a thumbnail appears within the bookmarks
 tray, and is shared among activity participants. It's presence gets stored
 with the browse session for future reference. In addition, the bookmark
 gets added to the global bookmark list, though it's not directly exposed
 anywhere (and it does not get a Journal entry). As an entry in the global
 bookmark list, it will be available for autocompletion, and will show up
 in any future implementation of a bookmark/history browser (from within
 any browse session).''

 ''Offline Bookmark: (Better phrasing welcome.) Offline bookmarks create a
 brand new Journal entry containing the cached page. Optionally, we could
 add settings to limit the size, compress or scale down images, skip
 embedded video, etc. But that's all in the details. The general goal is to
 provide a cached copy of the page which the kids can access later, while
 offline. Special handling of this form of entry will be required within
 Browse, so that it's made clear that the page is not live (and, in fact,
 its actual age is shown), and so that it's not possible to accidentally
 attempt to click a link and wind up losing the cached data. We can be
 smart about this. It seems that any offline bookmark should also get added
 to the list of global bookmarks, accessible from anywhere. A future
 bookmark/history browser could indicate which bookmarks are offline.''

 The thing I would like to add to browse as well ass the offline bookmark
 is the ability to share these bookmarks and so when there is no internet
 anyone in your mesh can still see the page you are looking at.

 == Here is the scenario: ==


 We are a private school in Toronto tutoring inner city children. We are
 going to be going around the city mostly by bus with internet for short
 periods of time. We would like to have the students look up web pages
 about where we're going, disconnect from the internet and read the
 information on the bus. Then have them select a few good web pages they
 have found and share them with the group.

 This could easily translate to the third world where internet access is
 not constant and have the ability to share your findings with someone who
 does not have internet. To save a Wikipedia page on your computer then
 walk back to your village and share and teach everyone who has a laptop
 what you learned today.

 My goal is to integrate this into the browse activity to make it easy to
 use and reliable.

 I have the vision but not the skills needed for this task. I'm asking
 anyone who can help tackle this challenge to contact me this feature would
 be a huge leap in the learning applications of these machines.

 you can e-mail me on .mac at agordonxii(@mac.com)

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