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Google Abandoning Gears
harrymcc noted a story talking about what might be the end of Google Gears. The concept has always been interesting, but it seems that Google is beginning to think of Gears as more of a proof of concept, and that focus will shift to HTML5, which has the same functionality.
On a beach in Mexico a whale beached itself. It's buoyant fatty body crushed the whale's lungs and suffocated it in the wide open air. Bacteria from the whale's intestines began to multiply and ferment and large amounts of gas accumulated in the whale's body. Soon a bulge was visible around the belly of the whale. Then the bulge grew until the whole carcass was bloated.
One day, the whale's rotting body broke and released the gas in a giant explosion.
Pushing functionality into the browser instead of relying on scripting means longer launch times, more failure points, and more disparate functionality from browser to browser for developers to consider. It's a fountain of whale guts, metaphorically speaking.
what about mac users with a IE-only web app? i know these things exist, if only as "internal" apps such as the school grading software my Teacher GF had to use at her last school. it produced brolen HTML that would freak out gecko and Safari, so i installed IE7 in wine. On her mac (w/o parallels ...) ancient IE would have been the only option.
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