As you may already now, Google has decided to pull the plug off Gears. Gears powers offline Gmail, offline Google Calendar and much less used Wordpress Turbo. The rationale behind this decision is the fact that Google is pushing out HTML5 and this standard offers pretty much everything and then some more of what Gears does. Google says that Gears has been an interim solution for the problem of offline web-apps and now that many others including mainstream browsers are supporting it there won’t be any necessity for Gears. OK, if that is the case I am happy, but what about now? Gears does not work on Snow Leopard, and Gmail, Google Calendar and Wordpress Turbo does not seem to support HTML5. Or is it that the browsers I am using Firefox 3.5, Safari 4 and Chrome for Mac Beta do not support HTML5. I am still waiting here Google…
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