Google Gears is Launched

Mister Inbetween writes "Google is rolling out a technology designed to overcome the major drawback faced by all web-based applications: the fact that they don't work without an internet connection. Google Gears is an open source technology for creating offline web applications that is being launched today at Google's annual Developer Day gatherings around the world."

Comments

No Safari or Opera Support

[AKAImBatman]

Boo! Am I the only one who thinks the Big 4 browsers should be supported, and not just FireFox/IE? In fact, I'd rather put a sign up on my site that says, "IE Users not welcome, upgrade to a REAL browser" than not support the millions of mobile and home gaming machines out there. Of course, I suppose that's just me.

I'm looking into how this works right now. I have my suspicions, but we'll see.

Mark said so...

[meburke]

Hehehehe. Mark Andreesen once said that the browser would replace the desktop and Microsoft buried him. Google has sneaked up on Microsoft, big time. This seems to be a pretty good tool. Works better than Windows 1.0 or 3.0 ever did.

Re:What's the Point

[aichpvee]

Because it is slow.

MODS: Feel free to mod me troll, I can take it and it will only show that I'm right and you're afraid.

Re:a point

[misleb]

It has to work across multiple platforms because we have multiple platforms in use.

So this is about you and not some general hypothetical case, then?

And since an on-site solution apparently does not exist (else you would have proposed something, as requested), I submit that you're just arguing for the sake of being difficult.

I didn't realize I was supposed to come up with a solution for your particular situation which meets very specific criteria such as being an on-site application. Tell you what, you pay me $75 an hour and I'll see what I can do.

I submit that you're trying to get free consulting out of a Slashdot thread!

-matthew