Gears

Gears, formerly known as Google Gears, is a software developed by Google, allows users offline access, but is still in beta stage. The software side through the local SQLite database so the information can scratch up. So the page is achieved through the buffer, not made from the actual network. Moreover, Web-related programs through the Gears will be periodic temporary local data and information on the network to do synchronization. If the network is temporarily unavailable, the synchronization process will be delayed until the network is restored. So, Gears of Web-related applications are not immediate. Gears is a free and open source software to BSD license.IntroductionGoogle Gears browser extension by the way to add the JavaScript API allows script to access the browser's cache local database. This extension only supports Firefox and Internet Explorer and the need to work on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. [2] currently have a browser that supports the development version of Safari. At present, Google Reader, Google documents, Google Mail, Google Calendar and Google Chrome is Google all of the five programs that use Google Gears, but there are other Web applications, such as Remember the Milk has added Google Gears this feature. In Google Reader, the online mode and offline mode need to artificially switch, mainly because the data transmission process differ. In other applications, such as Remember the Milk, online and offline mode seamlessly switch.Google Gears is a web application used to develop off-line tools, is a JavaScript application programming interface, through a variety of Google Gears allows Web applications to run offline, allowing users on-line or Web applications to run offline , its source code is open.
Google Gears and Microsoft, the biggest difference between similar products is that it can run in the offline case, you can start from the user's computer hard drive, create the file can be stored on the hard drive can also read files from the hard disk.
 Now with Google Gears, Google's software of Google Reader, a news browser, has been able to off-line browsing. When connected to the network, users can also update the subscription content. There will be a succession of other software applications Google Gears technology.Google CEO Eric Schmidt foreign claims: "Google Gears to solve the biggest limitations of the browser, making the browser a variety of applications can be equipped with a powerful platform."
 Google said Google Gears can be used in a variety of popular operating systems on a variety of mainstream browsers, its operating system including Windows, Mac and Linux, browsers include Firefox and Opera. But Google did not mention Microsoft's browser, IE.The Google released Google Gears, Microsoft is probably the most worried about Google's open source initiatives of. Google wants to promote the industry through Google Gears to form a unified standard to compete with Microsoft.
 According to Gartner analyst David Smith said that Microsoft would be forced either to support Google's open-source project, or will take similar initiatives.
Gears has now begun to support IE6 browser above.Currently, the valley has been reported in Austria to give up Google Gears, and the use of the HTML5 standard to replace its original function. In Google recently updated Google Docs update on the blog, also revealed that the final implementation of the HTML5 Time: May 3, 2010. The reason, in addition to maintaining the simplicity of the browser, another noteworthy issue is the compatibility of Google Gears.
Gears with HTML5 instead of the obvious: the next generation network HTML, HTML5 is a network standard, rather than the plug-in. Gears not only to achieve the function, and no longer have to worry about compatibility issues. For Google, you need not worry about step Adobe's footsteps, Docs, as is Apple shut out as Flash.