Posted by ketyung
on May/31/2007
at 4:07 am
It’s pretty interesting at least to take note here that what Google is going to introduce to us. Google’s newly announced Google Gears, which is an open source browser plugin that enables developers to create offline web applications using JavaScript API. Meaning that the web application developed by you using Google Gears will be able to work offline as well as online across browsers.
The plugin is about 700K for Firefox 1.5 and above and also Internet Explorer 6.0 and above. It comes wth 3 developer APIs. These 3 APIs are for handling 3 different tiers of application development. Which the first tier is to handle the creation of data objects to store application information locally, the second tier is the database tier that is made up of SQLite relational database and the third tier enables asynchronous JavaScript applications to synchronize data in the background without overburdening the browser. I’ve downloaded the plugin, which I’ll explore it later and will start posting here once I’ve got some results.
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