Google Phasing Out Gears For HTML5

Posted by timothy on Friday February 19, 2010 @05:40PM 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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Re:Support not ending for IE by daveime · 2010-02-19 19:26 · Score: 0, Troll

Wow, just fucking wow.
Years ago, when MS was making advances in IE4, and NS sucked balls and couldn't keep up, MS were the bad guys for "jumping the gun", and not following standards.
Nowadays, when the other browsers are ahead, and MS has fallen behind, MS are the bad guys for "not keeping up", even though the standard in question is not yet finalized, and won't be for the foreseeable future.
Some of you are more than just shills, you are religious fanatics.