Remote Views - Not working offline?

[Andrew]

Hi,
My webapp is not being hosted online, it is simply a series of html/css/js files on my machine. 

I am using a splitview with 2 panes, a simplified structure of the left pane can be seen below:

<div data-role="pane" id="left-pane" data-layout="side-default" data-transition="slide">

      <div data-role="layout" data-id="side-default" data-show="toggleBackButton">
          <!-- layout stuff here -->
      </div>

      <div data-role="view" id="side-view">
          <!-- Left Panel Content -->
          <ul data-role="listview" data-style="inset">
              <li><a href="#testview">Commercial Services</a></li>
              <li><a href="testview.html">Litigation Services</a></li>
              <li><a href="views/paneviews/private_client_services/index.html">Private Client Services</a></li>
          </ul>
          <!--    -->

      </div>

      <div data-role="view" id="testview">
        <p>Test view</p>
      </div>
    </div>

There are 3 buttons in the UL. The first looks for a view in the current HTML document - this works fine.
The second and third look for remote files, and these do not work. The locations are correct and I have viewed page source and opened the links to check this.

When I click them nothing happens and the webapp becomes unresponsive until I refresh the page. 

The contents of testview.html is as follows:

<div data-role="view" id="side-view">
  <p>This is a remote view</p>
</div

It is necessary for my webapp to be hosted for this to work? Can remote files not work offline? 

Thanks in advance,
Andrew.

[Alexander Valchev]

Hello Andrew,

Remote Views are fetched via Ajax request and are injected into the DOM tree. If you open the application from the local file system (e.g. the address looks like file:///C:/work/examples/app.html) the browser will not be able to perform Ajax request, as a result the View will not be loaded.

You should host the application on a web server even if it is a local one and access the it via http protocol. For example http://localhost/work/examples/app.html

Regards,
Alexander Valchev
Telerik