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Google Phasing Out Gears For HTML5

Posted by timothy on from the toothless-grin dept.

Kelson writes "Have you noticed that there haven't been many updates to Gears in a while? That's because Google has decided to focus instead on similar capabilities in the emerging HTML5 standard: local storage, database, workers and location cover similar functionality, but natively in the web browser. Of course, since Gears and HTML APIs aren't exactly the same, it's not a simple drop-in replacement, so they'll continue supporting the current version of Gears in Firefox and Internet Explorer. I guess this means the long-anticipated Gears support for 64-bit Firefox on Linux and Opera are moot."

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  1. ALLOW MY TO AIRE GRIEVANCES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Curling is not a sport, it's what you do when you drink a lot of beer and have nothing else to do

    2. Snowboarding is not a sport, it's what you do when you drink a lot of beer and have nothing else to do

    3. Winter Olympics are not what they used to be, now it's what you do when you drink a lot of beer and have nothing else to do

    1. Re:ALLOW MY TO AIRE GRIEVANCES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You're wrong. Curling and snowboarding has never happened at the beer olympics. never. do not blame beer for those so called "sports"