Google Trashes Gears (websphere.sys-con.com) March 21, 2011 at 1:00 AM
Google is dumping Gears, the widgetry used to let Google Apps work offline.
The functionality has been moved to HTML 5. The company said in a blog that
there will be no new Gears releases, newer browsers such as Firefox 4 and
Internet Explorer 9 won’t be supported with plug-ins, and Gears will be
removed from Chrome in Chrome 12. In its place it’s implemented support for
application caches to replace Gears’ offline features, replaced Gears Database
API with an IndexedDB API that its “friends at Mozilla and Microsoft” – yeah,
it really said that – collaborated on, substituted a File API for Gears’ Blob
functionality and implemented the geolocation, notifications and web worker
APIs in Gears natively in Chrome.
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