What happens to office 2.0 functionality when you ...

As far as I understand you just stop working. But I think that for most people office 2.0 won't completely replace traditional office applications in the next few years, unless they know they have reliable broadband connection and they don't travel too often; I guess most people will still have an office package on their computers.

For me, that's an essential still-missing piece in the big picture. 

This is the sort of applications that Tim O'Reilly refers to as "Level 2" applications  in his recent "Levels of the Game: The Hierarchy of Web 2.0 Applications" - "The application could exist offline, but it is uniquely advantaged by being online".

I am currently listening to Esther Dyson speaking on the Office 2.0 conference, who just disclosed that she sees herself as an Office 1.0 kind-of-person - with one of the main reasons she cited being the inability of current Office 2.0 applications to work effectively offline. So, I guess this pain is rather universal.

Solving it effectively might require better support from browsers - a combination of simple, secure offline functionality plus "queued posts" - post this to this page (end-point) when I go online.

It was interesting that, at the

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