New: An updated version of Impel.inTouch is now available as a module for Impel. The documentation on this page references the old version. If you want to use the latest and greatest version than please visit the Impel site.

Today I've got another update of Impel.inTouch for you. This version brings much better support for synchronizing HTML5 databases in iPhone PhoneGap applications.

The last version of Impel.inTouch would stall when trying to synchronize a lot of tables with tons of data on the iPhone. It also didn't bother to tell you if it wasn't able to connect to the synchronization server to download the latest data.

The new version 0.7 provides an 'abort' event that is fired if the server is unavailable. Version 0.7 also support synchronizing form a local filesystem such as a PhoneGap application running on an iPhone. Read more...

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New: An updated version of Impel.inTouch is now available as a module for Impel. The documentation on this page references the old version. If you want to use the latest and greatest version than please visit the Impel site.

The first release of Impel.inTouch made it simple to keep your user's HTML5 databases up-to-date with your server. All you needed to do was publish a versions file and a definition file for the most recent version of each table on your server. Then all of your client's local HTML5 databases would be quickly and transparently updated the next time they fire up your web application.

There was however one small issue: every time a user's HTML5 database table was updated via Impel.inTouch the entire table would need to be downloaded again. Today's release pushes that issue to the side. The release of Impel.inTouch includes incremental update capabilities.

New: An updated version of Impel.inTouch is now available as a module for Impel. The documentation on this page references the old version. If you want to use the latest and greatest version than please visit the Impel site.

Impel.inTouch makes it simple to keep your client's HTML5 databases up-to-date. The first time it is used on a client's computer it will connect to your server, download the latest schema and data then import it into the local HTML 5 database. Every other time the client connects to your site, or loads a cached version of it, Impel.inTouch will quickly verify that it has the latest schema and data then pass off to the rest of your web application. All you need to do to update the HTML 5 databases on your client's machines is update the schema published by your server. All your client's will download the new data the very next time they fire up your web application.

I really like the way this web application is progressing. We've already got a good amount of traffic with lots of repeat visitors spending gobs of time on the site. So far the record for most time spent studying in one sitting is shared between someone in Blois, France and someone in Komae (狛江市), Japan with 51 minutes each. Read more...