About Google Gears
Google Gears is beta software offered by Google to enable off-line access to services that normally only work on-line. It installs a database engine, based on SQLite, on the client system to locally cache the data. Google Gears-enabled pages use data from this local cache rather than from the online service. Using Google Gears, a web application may periodically synchronize the data in the local cache with the online service. If a network connection is not available, the synchronization is deferred until a network connection is established. Thus Google Gears enables web applications to work even though access to the network service is not present.
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Practical Ext JS Projects with Gears | The Ebooks Nest
Explore Article The Ebooks Nest (Jul 1 2009)
...er, timekeeper, a code cabinet, and more. * Get back to basics and back ends using a SQL workbench, Google Gears, and Ext BASIC. * Pull it all together by designing a game using Ext JS. * And more Please apprecia...
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JStORM: A New JavaScript Object-Relational Mapper
Explore Article Ajaxian (Oct 1 2008)
...round to create the entirely new JStORM framework, announced in his blog. JStORM currently supports Google Gears, Aptana Jaxer, and Adobe AIR, but it's still bleeding edge: no documentation yet, just code. Bu... (Read Full Article)
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Google offers Gears for Safari beta
Explore Article Ars Technica (Aug 26 2008)
[link] [comments] Google Gears is a clever technology that allows social media applications like Google Reader, WordPress, and Rem...
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Was JavaScript a mistake? Standardizing on a single language puts too many eggs in the browser's basket.
Explore Article InfoWorld Blogs (Aug 21 2008)
...dial-up. Little wonder that no one could be bothered to download them. The modern counterexample is Google Gears. Install the Gears plug-in once, and every Gears-enabled application gains additional functionality... (Read Full Article)
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This Week in HTML 5: Mark Pilgrim’s new blog series
Explore Article Ajaxian (Aug 7 2008)
I am really jazzed about the first entry in a new series on HTML 5. Mark Pilgrim (of Python, Greasemonkey, Open Web, writer extraordinaire, and creator of Google Doctype) has started the series This Week in HTML 5 which aims to keep us up to speed on the spec, and progress across the board (what [...] (Read Full Article)
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jQuery Dom Storage Plugin progress
Explore Article Andrew Wooldridge Dot Com (Aug 2 2008) jQuery
...Attic. You know, you put stuff in the Attic and take it out. Anyway - my next task is to try to get Google Gears storage working. I've managed to scrape a few minutes together and get Firefox support for my n... (Read Full Article)
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4D releases 4D Web 2.0 Pack v11 Release 2
Explore Article AJAX Magazine (Aug 1 2008)
... new version of their Ajax Framework, included in this new release a major enhancement with HTML 5, Google Gears and Adobe Air support, In addition to support codeless generation of an Ajax client for the... Majo... (Read Full Article)
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Publish / Subscribe With jQuery
Explore Article Jamie Thompson (Jun 17 2008)
...une 17th, 2008 With a view to writing a jQuery UI integrated with the offline functionality of Google Gears i’ve been toying with some code to poll for network connection status using jQuery. The Network Det... (Read Full Article)
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Zoho Takes Yahoo and Google Logins - Interview with Brad Neuberg ...
Explore Article Free Line Report (May 20 2008)
...in your blog’s admin panel. We have a link to an interview with Brad Neuberg, one of the men behind Google Gears. He talks about the next generation of the web, and how he and many others are paving the way to a ... (Read Full Article)
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Explore Article Room 101 (Apr 26 2008)
...pure server side web applications. Google has finally acknowledged as much with the introduction of Google Gears. Microsoft’s LiveMesh naturally emphasizes this even more. I say naturally, because Microsoft has a... (Read Full Article)
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Google Docs now runs offline with Gears
Explore Article Ajaxian (Mar 31 2008)
...you don’t have connectivity is important, and today the Google Docs team supports local service via Google Gears. I have been using this ability for awhile, and I have personally seen a couple of side effects: ... (Read Full Article)
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Dojo Storage updated for 1.0
Explore Article Ajaxian (Mar 17 2008) Dojo
...What makes Dojo Storage unique is that it automatically determines the best way to achieve this. If Google Gears, a small open-source plug-in that teaches current browsers new tricks, is present then this will be... (Read Full Article)
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Google Gears for Mobile Released
Explore Article Ajaxian (Mar 4 2008)
...w available for Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Mobile 5 and 6. It’s a fully functional port of Google Gears v0.2 that can be used to develop offline capability into your mobile web applications. You can also... (Read Full Article)
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gearsAJAXHelper: Using Gears as an optional speed boost
Explore Article Ajaxian (Feb 27 2008)
... it so that each time the user visits your webpage they will be getting resources served from their Google Gears cache, not new versions from the internet. Be careful when using this feature, as you might not wan... (Read Full Article)
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Audible Ajax Episode 24: Aptana Jaxer Talk
Explore Article Ajaxian (Feb 18 2008)
...evin Hakman all sat with me to chat about things. I have already played with Jaxer, and created the Google Gears wrapper which can be used [...] I had the opportunity to sit down with three fine gents from Aptana... (Read Full Article)
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