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Google Gears

Posted in google by sandro on the May 31st, 2007

Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality functionality using following JavaScript APIs:

  • Store and serve application resources locally
  • Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
  • Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

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  1. donald said,

    on May 31st, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    The samples below demonstrate some of the Google Gears functionality. View source to see how the samples use the Google Gears API.
    Note: You must install Google Gears to use these samples.

    * Simple Database Demo - Store and retrieve values in the database
    * Simple ResourceStore Demo - Capture a URL and display it while offline
    * Simple ManagedResourceStore Demo - Capture a versioned set of URLs atomically and update them together
    * Simple WorkerPool Demo - Perform a long-running computation without blocking the browser UI

    http://code.google.com/apis/gears/

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