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Article: Hands-On with Google Gears; Google Gears smooths path to Web-based applications for developers.
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- eWeek
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- June 11, 2007
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Everywhere you look, it seems as if more and more core applications are moving from the desktop to the Web, but for all the advantages of Web applications, this emerging class of software carries a major liability when compared with its desktop-bound brethren: Without the Web, there's no application.
Enter Google Gears, a new tool for adding offline capabilities to Web applications from Google, the 800-pound gorilla of the Web application space.
eWEEK Labs tested the initial beta of Google Gears that the search company released at its Developer's Day in late May, and we see a lot of promise in the tool for helping to dissolve the offline access dilemma that threatens to retard the growth ...