Hi Donald
The "offline" capability that we had in the Quick Report beta's - as you describe - was insufficient. We may have stored the records but there was no code to update them once back online. Also, you could only actually submit a record if you lost connection after the service had already been read, and you got a location.
For the first full release offline has been removed from Quick Report. We know offline is important - and we do plan to add offline specific templates to our collection over time.
Users can also customize any of the templates to suit they specific needs. We do have a reasonable number of samples that demonstrate the different elements that you need to build any web mapping app - including offline functionality.
Regards, Marika