Web Apps without Web Servers

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Demo shows a full writing app called dreamwriter.doio built with only static files on Amazon S3 and the HTML5 appcache, letting new documents, drag‑open files via FileReader, downloads via FileSaver.js, and tab sync using IndexedDB all work offline. Sync to Dropbox happens directly from the browser using OAuth and CORS. Appcache quirks and quota prompts for persistent IndexedDB are real limits, but the static‑hosted prototype actually works without any server‑side code.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 7:58Present Potential What can we do now that we couldn't in the 1990s?
3. 27:07Dropbox
4. 27:40The Same-Origin Policy CORS and easy XDM

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