Now Google launched their new service called Google Gears. The first question raised on my mind is What is this Google Gears?
I know that you also asking for the same question. Ok, it is time to resolve the question.
Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Gears provides three key features:
- A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
- A database, to store and access data from within the browser
- A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background