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[DavidHB]

(09-05-2015 11:25)Baba Yaga Wrote:  Just found out that Lumin has this feature already implemented. I think they are building up their own db on the device and use the 'last modied date'.

Yes, and that, for me, is the no-no. As I see it, the server has the power to do the processing (without clogging up lots of scarce phone or tablet memory with loads of cache data), and the position in the complete system to standardise the user browsing experience so that we don't have to do mental gymnastics every time we use a different control point. But persuading people who write software for terminals (which is what control points, essentially, are) not to meddle with things that need to be done server-side is, it seems, a hard thing to do.

(09-05-2015 11:25)Baba Yaga Wrote:  Amazing how complex this stuff is. The more I dig into it the more to discover

Quite so, though I prefer to think of it as lots of individually simple things all mixed up together ...

David