Monday, November 25, 2013

XOWA: Wikipedia offline

Insofar, the game-changing Wikipedia has been a phenomenon that required you to have access to the Internet. This did not limit possibilities, but allowed you to keep up-to-date. However, there are those who would prefer to use it without having that kind of connectivity. This is early, but now it's possible.

You have an application that works on Win32/64 or GNU/Linux-32/64. The core is written with Java, this would seem to have facilitated their faster dual-platform support and hence a prudent choice. I appreciate their not having stuck to mingw by first having had a native GNU/Linux application which would permit them to uniformly tune user-experience on multiple platforms.
http://xowa.sourceforge.net/

Click the link above if you're among the impatient lot, and would rather dive right in and find out what it is.
For more details, you'll have to continue reading.