HTML5 Web Application Development By Example Beginner's guide

Time for action – creating a cache manifest

Let's create a simple application from our template to demonstrate how to use the cache manifest. It has HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files, and a couple of images in an image folder. You can find the source code for this example in Chapter 10/example10.2.

Now let's create a cache manifest file named app.appcache:

CACHE MANIFEST
# v10.2.01

The manifest file must always begin with CACHE MANIFEST on the first line. On the second line we have a comment. Lines that start with a hash mark (#) are comments. It's recommended that you have some type of version identifier or the release date in the comments of your manifest file. As noted previously, the only way to cause your application to be reloaded into the cache ...