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I understand, it was mostly or the-in-the-future-maybe-have-a-web-function-to-sync.

I also suggested Couch because outside of western countries, you seldom find laptops or desktops (outside of cities), but smartphones with a recent browser are ubiquitous, so if it worked on IE7 it would run anywhere, even in the most remote area with no/crappy network. And the first time I used couch, my programming "knowledge" was very basic HTML (no JS).

> if we went with the browser I would have to support mobile phones and I don't want to support mobile phones for this use case for a lot of other reasons.

Yeah... all in all I completely misinterpreted the requirement of your use-case.



> And the first time I used couch, my programming "knowledge" was very basic HTML (no JS).

That probably explains a lot: you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail.

CouchDB makes no sense whatsoever for the requirements described.


> you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail.

Actually, that comment made me see things differently on a project that had me scratch my head for the last couple of weeks, so thanks a lot!

Don't know if it's related but I tend to feature creep.


You're welcome! I am glad you took it in a good way and helped you.




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