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Article: Google Gears Allows Offline Web Development; At the Google Developer Day event taking place in 10 locations around the world, the company plans to announce an open-source browser developers can use to create Web apps that function offline.
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- eWeek
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- May 31, 2007
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At Google's Developer Day event on May 31, the company is expected to announce Google Gears, an open-source technology for creating offline Web applications, said Bret Taylor, head of Google developer programs.
Taylor described Google Gears as a new browser extension that the company is making available in its early stages so that everyone can test its capabilities and limitations and help improve it. As with other technologies Google has produced, the company's long-term hope is that Google Gears can help the industry as a whole move toward a single standard for offline capabilities that all developers can use, Taylor said.
Indeed, Google intends to work with the WHATWG (Web Hypertext ...