Mobile html5 standalone caching dynamic pages

Question

I am creating a database driven web application and it is difficult for me to find a way to cache articles.

I was thinking that I was just doing cfquery to iterate over all the article ids to give me the path to the page (e.g. /? Page = article & article_id = # id #), but from what I know about html5 caching is what if all changes in the manifest file are downloaded all over and over again.

If updateready continues to fire, does this slow down the page significantly?

Answer 1

This should not slow down too much, because all this should happen in the background, but this is not the best approach. The application cache is not designed to store dynamic data, it is much better for static content. I would recommend caching the container page and then loading the contents into it using AJAX / JavaScript. Use local storage to save your data for offline use on the client side.