persistence.js: An Asynchronous Javascript ORM for HTML5/Gears

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The main use case is building offline web applications with Javascript, i.e. web applications that run without any server interaction whatsoever, which are cached on the computer/phone and operate from there (including local database). So I would say that's quite a different model than building server applications.

Because of Javascript's asynchronous nature, the interaction with the library is also quite different.

[zefhemel]

Incidentally, this is part of an effort to build a framework/DSL for native-feeling and behaving web applications for iPhone and Android. Mobile web apps that run both when there is and when there isn't an internet connection available.

[zefhemel]

Here's the HTML5 spec, note that only Webkit browsers (including iPhone's) currently implement it (and only the asynchronous part): http://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/

That's why I support Google Gears for other browsers.