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What happened to Google Gears?

  • Gears seemed like the holy grail of projects for Google in that it's aim seemed to be to make every web app semi-functional offline.  The thing that will prevent me from ever taking their Chrome OS seriously is that there's (currently) no offline support. Even if the cloud is the future, someone somewhere will always be unable to connect.  So I'm curious if anyone knows what Google's plans are for Gears or a Gears-like solution?

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    Google gears was sunset-ed by Google. Engineering efforts were re-directed to HTML5 offline capability.

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Chrome OS actually has two offline solutions: 1. HTML5 Application Cache [1]. This is essentially the standardization of what Gears was trying to do. It is better integrated and works very well. You haven't seen a lot of appcache enabled sites because it didn't have good browser support until very recently. 2. Chrome packaged apps [2]. You can package a static set of resources into a zip file and distribute it on the Chrome Web Store. This is an easy way to get offline functionality, but it only works in Chrome. [1] http://diveintohtml5.org/offline.html (note that debugging in Chrome is now much easier than that article implies because Chrome's dev tools now have support for appcache inspection) [2] http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/apps.html

Aaron Boodman

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