make resources offline available

[zoepage]

Because of font issues (#101 and #108) and also because we want to make the website and especially documentation offline available, I'd love to add an app manifest. As we know, the app cache is a douchebag, I'd suggest we use appcache-nanny. https://www.npmjs.org/package/appcache-nanny

Your suggestions?

cc @verpixelt

[janl]

cc @gr2m :)

[NickColley]

We're generating ours like this: https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/blob/master/docs/manifest.appcache if it's any help.

[zoepage]

Thanks @NickColley for the input :)
I'll check it! :)

[gr2m]

I'm not sure if appcache is the best solution to tackle the font issue. I'd separate the issue from making the docs available offline. Could you check with @smashingmag how they did it? I know Vitaly put quite some effort to find a best solution to make their page fast, and I think they ended up with a solution for the fonts that loads them async, and caches them in localStorage

[zoepage]

@gr2m this sounds awesome! will do. Thanks!

[zoepage]

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/09/08/improving-smashing-magazine-performance-case-study/

[zoepage]

The font is now stored in the localStorage thanks to @verpixelt! :)

We still want the documentation to be offline available. Any suggestions @gr2m ?

[NickColley]

Booop https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/blob/master/docs/manifest.appcache

Also keep in mind with appcache it will always serve from it's cache first then update itself, so we did the following to tell the user there's an update: https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/blob/master/docs/_layouts/default.html#L202

[gr2m]

I'd say let's tackle the offline thing for next hood.ie. It should be straight forward to do with appcache-nanny, including the update notification

[zoepage]

Appcache-Nanny was also my thought.
We just need that for docs in first place.