Article: Inside Google Gears.(internet server software)

Byline: Tim Anderson

Inside Google Gears

Take your web applications offline with Google's open-source browser add-in

Google recently announced its Gears project, explaining that it enables web applications to work offline.

The demonstration application is Google Reader, an online blog reader. If Gears is installed, you can click an icon to go offline, and it will download the last 2,000 blog items. You can then return to that URL and read the entries, even if the PC is no longer online. This works by downloading the data to a local database, along with the pages and Javascript code that form the application.

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