Mobile cloud storage support in the browser

Abstract: With the number of mobile devices growing rapidly more and more people can
connect to the internet by WiFi hotspots, UMTS and other high speed
internet connections. Everyone seems to be always online these days. Web
applications for checking e-mails, reading RSS-feeds or word processors for
writing and editing documents simultaneously with colleagues or friends are
becoming increasingly popular.
Further, with new concepts like Cloud Com- puting and Cloud Storage it is
becoming more reasonable to store produced data on a more available and
sharable web space. But if the user goes offline or loses the internet
connection, he can neither check e-mails nor work on his online document
with a preferred online word processor nor is he able to access data
residing in the storage cloud. This thesis will investigate the pos-
sibilities of using Web applications offline on mobile devices while
temporarily being disconnected from the Internet. A comparison of key
technologies like AtomDB, Dojo Offline, Gears and the current working draft
of HTML5 is accomplished. The next HTML5 specification will offer
several advanced techniques for providing client-site storage which are
very important for many web developers. On the basis of several demo
applications these features will be shown. The thesis will also
present an idea to overcome the issue of limited storage capability of
mobile devices by using the concept of Cloud Storage.