Google Gears: Have Your Web Application Offline !

Submitted by phil on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 19:38

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http://gears.google.com/

Finally it is here !!!

It runs on Internet Explorer on Windows; Firefox on Windows, Mac OS and Linux; and on the Safari Mac OS browser.

Google expects to have a consumer-ready release of Google Gears, which will be under 1 megabyte in size, "within months." It also expects to submit the code to a standards body so that it will eventually be built into all standards-compliant browsers.

Google Gears is an open source browser extension that enables web application to provide OFFLINE functionality using following JavaScript APIs:

	Store and serve application resources locally
	Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
	Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness