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The whole point is to enable the browser to be a full proper app platform- that includes enabling web apps to work OFFLINE. The behaviour of a browser without app cache is to fail to display content even if it is cached if your connection happens to be offline. the html5 app cache addresses that- and is the "standardised" alternative to google gears' local "offline" web server.

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