Google Gears BETA
Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs.
To use this extension you have to download the extension available from the website. Google Gears (BETA) is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X(10.2 or higher) and Linix OS.
By the release of Google Gears developers now have the capability and the resources to develop full offline applications which doesn’t require them to be compiled.
The minumum system requirements for installing the extension is a Windows XP/Vista Operating System with FireFox 1.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+ installed. Google team is currently working on supporting Safari on Mac OS X in a future release.
How does Google Gears make my application work offline?
This is made possible by Google Gears through a set of API’s which are made available to Javascript code. These API’s must be called explicitly to take advantage of the offline features provided by Google Gears along with making changes to your web application code.
