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A short demo of Apatosaurus v2 offline functionality for the TEI compatible transcription editor. #digitalhumanities

My working working theory for offline capable apps that do work on data: - If the app allows editing data offline, then it had better have a robust mechanism for "catching up" when back online.

17/11/25, 6:00 pm0 reposts0 likes

David A Flood

@davidaflood.com

17 Nov 2025

- The current offline/online status needs to be clearly communicated to the user. "Clearly" being the keyword because in the case of Apatosaurus, there are multiple databases to sync locally. One per transcription document _and_ one for the other metadata.

David A Flood

@davidaflood.com

17 Nov 2025

- Notifying the user of their sync status based only on internet access is not sufficient. It might be the case that the server goes down. If so, then the user still needs to be able to do their work but still be notified of the gap in sync.