You're right, others posting before you sync is a real issue. There also is an issue with the post numbers and how we may end up with two posts having the same number, especially if someone posts before you sync. However, these also are issues that can be worked around, say, by changing the post numbers around during the sync process to avoid post database conflicts.

why so much hassle :|
to much work involved only to sync LQ offline and for what.. perhaps the question you are answering to in offline mode might as well be already solved before you sync ... and you'd be adding your answer and putting the solved question on top of the list, while other , unsuolved questions might end up unsolved only because they got down the top list because you've synced with LQ.

An offline Chrome OS app?

There is really no concept of offline with Chrome OS. If you don't have an internet connection (which is already hard to manage, since you have 3G built in), then the OS is more or less useless. If you are planning to use Chrome OS in a situation where you might not be able to get 100% access to the Internet, I would say you are thinking about a situation for which Chrome OS is completely un-suited.

Really? Try running the Fiabee app and you'll see that it is internal, running as a Chrome extension. Same thing with the Ubuntu One, Chrome Player, Launchpad, Scratchpad, SourceKit, Calculatoure, 5calc, and Write Space apps. Run all those apps and expect to find no URL in the upper bar. Why? Because the URL is internal, under the name "chrome-extension://<random-string>".

er, it's called usenet. (Grin, duck, and run)

The fact that you could name every major Chrome OS "app" that actually installs itself as an extension, out of the hundreds of apps in the Webstore, is a testament to how little interest there is in developing them.

There is really no debate on this subject, Google's design goal for Chrome OS is a completely web-based, always online, OS.

But the number of apps that install themselves as extensions is growing. There were only about 2 apps when I first started using the Web Store (which is before I got my Cr-48: You can use them in standard Chromium), and now there's many more. I can almost certainly tell you that I did *not* list all of them. Just the *free* ones. There are plenty of paid apps that also install as extensions (I bet you almost all the paid apps that don't require a subscription fee install as extensions).

While we have no plans for a ChromeOS App at this time, we'll certainly keep an eye on how ChromeOS progresses and whether an LQ app would be beneficial.

--jeremy

Especially since the HTML5 standard specifies ways to do exactly that. No "app" required.

My daughter says I'm suffering from ADOS - Attention Deficit... Oooh, Shiney!

IOW, I was about to respond to your post @MTK358, and saw a brand new shiney *Arch* icon down there on the bottom left for your browser agent ID :)

That's the first Arch icon I've noticed here at LQ, and the Oooh, Shiney!, that my daughter keeps reminding me of, LOL!

I'm gonna have to grab that Arch icon and add it to my little collection ;)

Okay, about your post.

DUH!

To expand upon your [rhetorical] question...

You guys want an App? k. np. I get emails for several of the boards I watch here, as well as the *Not Replied To* threads.

There's also RSS, and if you do a little search here, I had a problem where I wanted to get *just* the Slackware forum notifications sent out to me so I could..., um..., compete, so to speak, with some of the other longtime Slackers here who are lightning fast in responding to cries for help from others - although they still beat me to the punch most of the time and I can't figure out how they can get anything else done if they're watching the forums manually.

But I digress...

Anyway, Jeremy personally helped me out setting that up, so search for the thread here on LQ and the detailed instructions contained therein will walk you through it, step by step (Now, I think that just might fit under the definition of a web-app too - without all the upselling!).


Okay, so there's RSS, and a related feed that can be sent to you via email for any forum(s), and OMG! Xmarks works in Chrome, Chromium, FF, and even (or so I'm told) Exploder too!

I hope that helps :)

:twocents:

Kindest regards,

.

Apps Schmapps - it's a bookmark for cryin' out loud!
 

@silvyus, I disagree with you completely on this point.

Not about the relative issues of posting assistance in an offline mode, not knowing whether your contribution is going to be significant with regards to its timeliness, but rather, that posts on old, stagnant threads, or the notion that threads marked *[Solved]* don't require or deserve comment.

In fact, when Jeremy introduced the *[Solved]* feature, to alert folks that the OP had found a solution, he made a point of mentioning that you still could add to that thread.

You can read more HERE.

I've been the OP of many a thread here where someone posted a comment LONG after I had marked it solved, read that comment, and found significant value in what that poster had to say.

Case in point Here.

I also like to post to old threads myself, when I have a comment or would like to breath life into a discussion that has waned.

One thing that really, no... REALLY bugs me about the Mozilla boards (I forget which particular board system), is that they actually berate and chastise you for posting in an old thread - and then they'll lock it if you do.

Geez! Well, why not just mark the dang thing locked in the first place then? Not only that, but when I google and have six hits to the same problem that requires the exact same fix across multiple versions of TB or FF, It serves to thin the focus of the responses and I have to search all of those fricken threads until I get a satisfactory solution.

What do *I* do over there when it affects me directly? Why, I write up a canned post offline and then post to each of those threads, take my flaming, watch them lock the threads, and then get PMs thanking me for posting the common solution across all of the instances of that particular issue scattered across those distributed threads.

No. I do not agree with you at all on this point.

good point. i get it.
but for example i've seen posts that are like posting in a 5 year old thread saying a more modern thing, though i'm quite sure after 5 years the OP isnt even going to remember about that thread he openes(i certainly wouldjnt :\ )

i also hate that they tell you huh why the heck did you post, and ive also happened to do that one time on romanian ubuntu forum and i got shut up by them . lol . i hate that. i like LQ .

I was able to create an LQ app using Appmator; all I have to do is, when I get my next paycheck, pay the $5 developer registration fee and upload it.

You mean a bookmark-style app?

Yes. However, I wonder who can upload it to the Chrome Web Store for me (who already has paid the fee). If anyone responds, I will email them (via LQ) asking for a reply so I can use Gmail to send the app to them so they can upload it.