Comment by wodenokoto

When the iPhone came out, you had full offline access on PC to Gmail and google docs using Google Gears.

Google Gears got deprecated because something something move to standard HTMl and browser features and now we don’t really have any offline web apps.

The ability to have non sluggish, offline web apps has existed for decades now, but the interest from providers has been declining and the understanding that this is possible is also declining on the consumer side.