Providing an offline experience

[sivakumar-kailasam]

Providing an offline experience

[locks]

We do not have the bandwidth even in the case a contributor wants to follow up on this, so I think it's better to close it and whenever we want to pursue it again, we open a new issue with an up-to-date description.
The work is likely not going to be done in this repository as well, but at one of the underlying techs no?

[sivakumar-kailasam]

In the initial versions of api docs we did so automatically but it took up lot of bandwidth which could be bad for emerging markets or for users viewing it on a limited data plan on mobile. Which is why its probably better to allow users to opt in to do so.

[mansona]

So I just did a quick (very unscientific) estimate of how big the payload would be if we decided to download the whole content of the latest version on pageload for offline viewing:

177K  latest.tar.gz

That's not bad 😎

If you wanted to download all versions it's even not that terrible, but we could make this optional if people really wanted to have older versions available offline:

3.8M  content.tar.gz

[mansona]

@locks why was this closed? I think it's something that we still want to pursue at some point in the future 🤔