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Saturday, February 24, 2007 I am cruising right now at 35000 feet above the Atlantic headed back from London and all I want to do is surf the web.  Of course there is no internet and even if there was, I am not sure I would pay the $30 that the airlines are charging for it.  I can queue up emails using my email program so the next time I connect, the mail gets sent out, but why can't I do that for the rest of the web?  Imagine being able to prepare photos (tag, description, title) to be uploaded to Flickr while having no internet connection.  Better yet, instead of using TextWrangler to write my blog post, I could actually be entering it into my browser which will be pushed live once I am back on the ground.

While most would say we already have moved to an "always on" world, in the United States that is most definitely not the case.  WIMax may be rolled out this year in a dozen cities, and pricing for all you can eat data on mobile devices are still to high.  Of course forget the airlines, because they barely break even as it is, they are not going to spend millions of dollars up front to install internet on the planes.

Firefox 3.0 will begin building in tools to allow me to work offline, but it will be
up to websites to make the "magic" work.  Flickr will have to provide an offline
template that will be cached, when I navigate to flickr on my browser, Firefox
will load the cached page where I can enter in my data.  When the browser detects
a live connection, it will go and push the data to Flickr.

It seems so natural to sync our Blackberries or other mobile devices, I think the
our computers will be no different.



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• #1 Comment from gmadkat 
  2/24/07 9:55 PM | Permalink

  You just voiced my pet grouse :) On those neverending flights to India, I always wish there was free internet and failing that, at least a halfway decent way to prep stuff for websites.
  Gowri