Google Gears, a big deal
Google Gears, a technology created by Google to allow developers to create offline Web applications, was released today.
Google Gears comes as a browser extension.
It is a very significant move, because most applications until now have worked either entirely online, or entirely on your desktop — not both. Microsoft has moved to make applications like Outlook work on and offline, and has upgraded its efforts with its Silverlight project. Adobe, too, recently introduced Apollo, a similar… Continue Reading