Speaking of Murugan, he has a great post up about making wikis work offline and points to the nice Wiki2Go tool. At SLN, we think having offline capabilities are valuable for faculty (and, personally, I think they are at least as valuable for students as well). As Murugan points out, there is some common ground with the road warrior. I think we have to assume that higher ed learners are road warriors, in a way. Maybe that road is between work and home, but the point is that they are learning online because they are on the move and need to take their courses with them.
Hi Michael,
You may want to check out
http://www.codinginparadise.org/weblog/2006/04/now-in-browser-near-you-offline-access.html
It’s a JavaScript library implementing a browser-independent client side storage. No special off-line clients necessary.
Holy cow!! This is super-cool. I’m a fan of some dojo-enabled applications I’ve played around with, but I had no idea this was in the works.
A flat file alternative that is under active open source development is TiddlyWiki <http://www.tidlywiki.org> and <http://www.tiddlywiki.com/>.
TiddlyWiki is quite cool, especially for “micro content,” because entries are item-based rather than page-based. I carry mine around on my usb drive, and love it.