The story behind Google Docs Offline and some of the fantastic hacks put in place to make it work. We changed people's mindsets to "think offline" while re-architecting the apps to not rely on the network. Moving an internet company offline involves some hard work and has some serious challenges (performance, cross-browser compatibility, platform bugs, etc). For reuse of this video under a more permissive license please get in touch with us. The speakers retain the copyright for their performances.