Nov 06

Offline HTML 5 Apps (appcache)

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An offline web application requires a cache manifest file. A manifest file is a list of all of the resources that your web application might need to access while it’s disconnected from the network.  To start the process of downloading and caching these resources, you need to point to the manifest file, using a manifest attribute on your <html> element.

   1: <!DOCTYPE HTML> 
   2: <html manifest="/cache.manifest"> 
   3: <body> 
   4: </body> 
   5: </html>

Your manifest file can be located anywhere on your web server, but it must be served with the MIME content type text/cache-manifest.

AddType text/cache-manifest .manifest

The manifest file must end  with .manifest

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