{"id":646,"date":"2008-05-30T11:31:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T10:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2008-05-30T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T10:31:15","slug":"google-gears-support-in-wordpress-is-this-the-road-to-plug-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/646-google-gears-support-in-wordpress-is-this-the-road-to-plug-in-hell.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Gears support in WordPress – is this the road to plug-in hell?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting to see Gears support in WordPress 2.6<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The patch adds all static files used in the admin interface to a single offline storage. That speeds up page loading a lot, as it serves virtually all requests for static files from the computer’s HD instead of the network. So instead of 50-60 requests to the server on some pages, there are only 2-3.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Very simple, very effective. A user blogs the experience<\/a> here.<\/p>\n

So is Gears taking off? Maybe. There’s Zoho<\/a>; there’s Google itself<\/a>, there’s MySpace, which uses Gears for searching and sorting messages<\/a>. Note that Gears is still in beta; it’s curious that major sites are willing to use it in that state, but that’s the Internet for you.<\/p>\n

I have reservations about Gears. There’s the security angle<\/a>. More seriously, there’s the question about whether this is the right way to extend the browser. Google is doing its own thing; so is Yahoo with BrowserPlus<\/a>; so is Adobe with Flash, and Microsoft with Silverlight. All of them swear that they love browser standards, and in some cases (like local storage) there may be consolidation towards a standard API – see here<\/a> for a good discussion – but there is real danger of plug-in hell. <\/p>\n

Security is bound to be an issue as well, since the more browsers and their plug-ins interact with the client (which is the purpose of these extensions), the more potential there is for compromising the client.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: google gears<\/a>, zoho<\/a>, wordpress<\/a>, adobe<\/a>, silverlight<\/a>, firefox<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting to see Gears support in WordPress 2.6: The patch adds all static files used in the admin interface to a single offline storage. That speeds up page loading a lot, as it serves virtually all requests for static files from the computer’s HD instead of the network. So instead of 50-60 requests to the … Continue reading Google Gears support in WordPress – is this the road to plug-in hell?<\/span> →<\/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":[36,75,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-security","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","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=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}