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3 years ago Yang (cite this) presents a mechanism to support offline collaborative work in a web application. Due to the age of the document, most of the used tools are now obsolete, but the general ideas still apply. It proposes the existence of local storage to every client, so that operations done in offline mode are kept. Then, once the user comes back online, the work saved in the local storage is synchronized with the online storage, where conflict-resolution algorithms take place in order to minimize said conflicts.
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Research into Web based teamwork support has assumed that the network connection exists permanently, i.e. online. However, there is an increasing demand that teamwork environments should also support the offline mobile scenario that is so far not well addressed. The paper describes the radical requirements, novel mechanisms and innovative prototype for team members to work in an offline mobile mode in addition to that of the normal online mode. The prototype supports teamwork between the online and offline mobile modes with smooth switching over. © 2000 IEEE.