{"id":1989,"date":"2009-12-01T13:48:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T12:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1989-google-gears-out-html-5-in-what-this-means-for-offline-web-apps.html"},"modified":"2009-12-01T13:48:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T12:48:05","slug":"google-gears-out-html-5-in-what-this-means-for-offline-web-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1989-google-gears-out-html-5-in-what-this-means-for-offline-web-apps.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Gears out, HTML 5 in: what this means for offline web apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was interested to read that Google is <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/technology\/2009\/11\/google-gears.html\" target=\"_blank\">abandoning Gears in favour of HTML 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While that makes sense, it is a hassle for developers who have developed for Gears, since there are <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.futtta.be\/2009\/09\/17\/html5-offline-webapps-vs-google-gears-localserver\/\" target=\"_blank\">differences<\/a> between features such as HTML 5 local storage and Gears <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/gears\/api_localserver.html\" target=\"_blank\">LocalServer<\/a>. The Gears API was tidy and effective so in some ways I\u2019m sorry to see it go, though a broad standard will be much more useful.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this does mean that you can develop to the <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.w3.org\/html5\/spec\/Overview.html#offline\" target=\"_blank\">HTML 5 standard for Offline Web Applications<\/a> with some hope that, although broad implementation is lacking now, it will come in future. Even IE 9 is likely to have a fair amount of HTML 5 in it.<\/p>\n<p>It is a critical standard because the success of something like Google\u2019s Chrome OS will depend on it. Nobody can count on being always connected.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, there are also offline features in Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:997ddc2c-689c-44f5-a03c-030728d87b9b\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/google+gears\" rel=\"tag\">google gears<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/html+5\" rel=\"tag\">html 5<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/offline\" rel=\"tag\">offline<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/cloud+computing\" rel=\"tag\">cloud computing<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was interested to read that Google is abandoning Gears in favour of HTML 5. While that makes sense, it is a hassle for developers who have developed for Gears, since there are differences between features such as HTML 5 local storage and Gears LocalServer. The Gears API was tidy and effective so in some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1989-google-gears-out-html-5-in-what-this-means-for-offline-web-apps.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Gears out, HTML 5 in: what this means for offline web apps<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19,34,36,55,77,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe","category-cloud-computing","category-flash","category-google","category-microsoft","category-silverlight","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}