January 16th, 2008 | by Brad Neuberg | published in Google Gears
Posted by Brad Neuberg, Google Developer Programs Two quick updates from Gears land. First, we’ll be talking this evening (January 16th) on WebGuild’s Future of Web Apps panel here on the Google Mountain View campus. You can submit your questi…
January 10th, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Gears
By Dion Almaer, Google Gears TeamWe ran across happyhour, an OpenSocial container that implemented the JavaScript API in JavaScript itself. The happyhour project uses Gears to keep the social content around across sessions, which is an issue with a pur…
January 9th, 2008 | by Brad Neuberg | published in Google Gears
Posted by Brad Neuberg, Google Gears TeamThere is a meme going around that once ubiquitous (cellular or WiMAX) wireless access pervades everywhere that we won’t need the offline or performance abilities of something like Google Gears, Dojo Offline, or …
January 9th, 2008 | by Brad Neuberg | published in Google Gears
Posted by Brad Neuberg, Google Gears TeamGoogle Gears is about much more than just offline. With Gears, you can create websites that use the local server and database to accelerate performance and provide innovative new functionality.We’ve been waiting…
December 4th, 2007 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Gears
By Dion Almaer, Google Gears TeamBack in August we discussed the first release of Zoho Writer that allowed you to work offline with Gears.At that time we talked to Raju Vegesna and Sridhar Vembu of the Zoho team to discuss what they had released, and t…
October 19th, 2007 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Gears
Posted by Dion Almaer, Google Gears TeamI tend to write a fair share of blog posts, and whenever I am writing them while offline I tend to open up Textmate to do the write-up. Wouldn’t it be nice if I could open up my blog editor and do it all while I …
October 9th, 2007 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Gears
Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears TeamBrian Dunnington has taken some of the work done in the Dojo Offline Toolkit, and has created a new toolkit that has a lot of the same functionality, but it exists as one self-contained JavaScript file.This new Vortex l…
September 25th, 2007 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Gears
Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears TeamBrian Shaler has written an interesting application that uses Google Gears to do client side work regardless of if you are online or offline.The Digg Oracle, Brian’s application, pushes a data set down to the browser (i…
September 11th, 2007 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Gears
Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears TeamOur friends at Salesforce have written a detailed tutorial showing how to create an offline-enabled Salesforce application using Google Gears. Along the way they demonstrate Google Gears, Google Web Toolkit, and the use…
September 4th, 2007 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Gears
Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears teamOmar Kilani of Remember The Milk took the time to write up his teams experience in Taking web applications offline with Google Gears.The article moves past an introduction to delve into the design decisions around an of…
August 29th, 2007 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Gears
Posted by Chris Prince, Gears TeamWe are happy to announce the 0.2 release of Google Gears!You can download it here. The new features are listed below.This is a developer release. Before we update end-user machines,we want to get API feedback from yo…
August 23rd, 2007 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Gears
Posted by Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsWe were excited to hear that Zoho added Offline Support & Comments in Zoho Writer using Google Gears.We met with Raju Vegesna and Sridhar Vembu, of the Zoho team, to talk about the announcement and ended …
July 11th, 2007 | by Andrew Bowers | published in Google Gears
Posted by Othman Laraki, Product ManagerIt’s been a little over a month since Gears launched. In these few weeks, we received great input from the community and been impressed by all the creative uses people have found for Gears. Now that Gears is publ…
June 11th, 2007 | by Andrew Bowers | published in Google Gears
By Aaron Boodman, Google Gears Engineer and Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsIt has been a week and change since we announced Google Gears.We’ve been pretty busy responding to initial bugs, but we wanted to take a moment to summarize some of the g…
May 30th, 2007 | by A Googler | published in Google Gears
Posted by Aaron Boodman and Erik Arvidsson, Google Gears EngineersOne of the most frequently requested features for Google’s web applications is the ability to use them offline. Unfortunately, today’s web browsers lack some fundamental building blocks …