Developing Web Applications for Offline Access
Google has released a beta version of Google Gears which is a toolkit for developing offline applications. The client part of Gears is a web browser plug-in which installs with simple single click install (so simple that is definitely worth trying). Then user is able to store web sites locally for later offline access. One could e.g. store travel information to a laptop and then later while on the road access the site without network connection.
The Google Gears architecture uses local data storage to store the website data locally on the machine which runs web browser. When the network connection cannot be used to access the server, the Gears may provide the web resource from local data base in the user’s own machine.
Dojo Offline Toolkit is an extension on top of Google Gears that advertises to make the using of the Gears more easier, worth checking out.