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:
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Store and serve application resources locally |
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Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database |
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Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness |
Links:
[1] http://gears.google.com/
[2] http://dl.google.com/gears/GoogleGearsSetup.exe