Google Gears users can now read and browse our blog even while not connected to network. The Gears is an extension to Browser that stores the contents of website locally on a machine where the browser is used. Then even the network connection is lost, the browser can access the parts of the page from locally stored copy (architecture) and the user is able to use the website as usual.
To enable offline access we used wp-offline plug-in with WordPress. The setup procedure was very easy and straightforward. However, as the Gears uses same origin security policy, we had to do small reconfigurations to our website. We mapped everything under delaytolerant.com to appear under domain www.delaytolerant.com. The mapping was easily done by manipulating .htaccess file according to good instructions for web redirecting.
This far, it is only possible to read the blog but we are looking forward to future where the users are able to also write posts while not online, and synchronize them after they become connected. If you have Gears installed, you should see a link to start with just above the search box on the right-hand side.
nice, but its not working for me, i tried to open with www too, but nothing changed… the link is not showing :/
Hmm, I tested this on several machines, with Google Gears installed on Firefox- are you sure that you have installed Gears on your browser ? I also visited your site, I can see the “read offline” box on the right-hand side of your blog. It does not work for your blog though as it stops at “75% completed”. My guess is that you have to change “BLOG_ROOT” in delaytolerant/wp-content/plugins/wp-offline/wp-offline.js and then regenerate your JSON manifest by clicking “Options > WP-Offline” in yout wp-admin panel.
hmm i tried too on several machines, when opening site, google gears asks for permission, and thats all… now i disabled this plugin for further notice, will try tomorrow again. in wp-offline.js BLOG_ROOT is blog/ as in URL…
nice.. but also not work for me, is there any complete tutorial.
I have new site (still in progress, that’s why i need work offline to make fastest while design my site) I was install Google Gears, wp-offline, n wp-offline.js wrote BLOG_ROOT = ‘http://www.he4lth.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-offline/’; now I’m going stress, look like want to disable this plugin