d6y/sloppy — Issue #8: Stand-alone usage while not connect to Internet
Author: d6y
Created: 2011-12-05 22:58:51+00:00
State: open

Originally filed by lynn.d.a...@gmail.com on 2007-03-06T15:18:09

NOT A DEFECT: an enhancement (or perhaps documentation improvement)

Followup to email:

>> Most of my development is in C/C++. Is there a way to use Sloppy as
>> a standalone app? My impression is that the way to use Sloppy is to
>> come to the dallaway website. (Doesn't seem like your website is ad-
>> supported, so it isn't like you are 'selling eyeballs'.)
>
> It's downloaded to your machine, but when it launches it checks for
> updates. So it kind of is standalone in some sense. For example, it
> should launch if you're not connected to the internet (once you've
> run it once, of course).

I'm unclear how to to this ... perhaps stronger coffee would help .

Here is a scenario that my clarify my question:
Could I use "sloopy" if I was on a computer that was disconnected from the
internet, and I was doing web content development with "localhost"?

This is typically how I do this kind of work. I have IIS setup and then
work on the webpage (new or revisions). I go "back and forth" with
localhost until it seems ok, and then upload to the webhost itself.

It would be useful to have "sloopy" statistics to show the result of
changes, especially if I am trying to "trim" the size of webpages to
improved the responsiveness to the visitor.

If this is already possible, perhaps document how.

And thanks again for the time and effort you have put into making "sloopy"
available. For several of the websites where I have been a volunteer
webmaster, a large part of my activities involved trying to trim bloated
pages.