Gear up - Real time - Applications
February 17th, 2008 Filed Under Javascript, Technology, browser
Google Gears
Yessss…. Its google again….
Thats the wooohoooo again google consitently exhibits.
Its Google Gears … right now it is in its beta stage. I am sure its gonna rock the developers market again.
The most interesting part is that, this particular technology is not in the list of acquired technologies by google. A former Google employee Danny Thorpe (currently a Microsoft Employee) created the Google Gears API.
What is it like?
Its like a plugin Just like “Adobe Flash” plugin for all the A-Grade browsers. This plugin can be used by the developers/businesses who want their clients to roam around with their laptops/devices and still don’t want their sessions to get expired… or applications get disconnected upon getting disconnected with the internet.
But you need not install it specifically for different browsers … once installed(I checked it on windows xp) it takes care of all the browsers and responds to the availability with all the browsers.
What does it actually have?
It bunches:
- Localized database(SQLite)
- Localized server pages(Web Caching) technology from google
- & a Worker Pool(for synchronization) runs Asynchronously in the background as a javascript process API.
For Example:
Let us say I am using application made with this technology, say an address book and suddenly I need to rush for my office … now sitting in the office van I don’t want to waste my time staring at the same set of boring-mismated-swanky girls in the town. I want to use that time.
“Gears” let me gear all my tools for offline usage.
So sitting inside my car .. being offline, I still can go on filling my address book and then I close it. Next when I reach office and the connection is available .. my online database is synchronized with my offline one(or whichever is latest).
I have heard there is something online and desktop versioning possible in Adobe’s Apollo. I have not done any experiments with it till now.
You may hear about that from me in a day or two.
Till then happy experimenting with Gears
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