Published on 2007-06-05 11:47:15
If AJAX was the buzz word for the last two years, the new buzz word for the next ones will be offline web applications. Things started with WHATWG, Opera, Firefox3, Dojo Toolkit, Zimbra, Morfik, today Google Gears, and certainly more are following the trends beginning with Apollo which going to get an embedded SQLite database. Dion Almaer posted over Ajaxian quite interesting series on Gears with lots of code with an intereview with Brad Neuberg on Dojo offline support and how it will be integrated with Gears.
Google Gears features
Google Gears came with many exciting features in three modules that address the core challenges in making web applications work offline. The LocalServer allow caching and serving resources for web application locally, the Database which store data locally in SQLite fully-searchable relational database, and the WorkerPool which allow asynchronous operations to not disturb the running process of the main application during synchronization.Read More
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