There has been a lot of talk about Google's new development environment "GOOGLE GEARS". This article is a good summary of how Google Gears works and how powerful it will soon be.
The article starts out by stating:
"Web application development is the perfect 95 percent solution. It's very easy to develop a simple HTML frontend to something like PHP or Rails, to deliver data to and from a MySQL database. You can even give it a more desktop feel by using Ajax tools. But that last five percent, the ability for desktop applications to work offline, was missing from the web world until the release of Google Gears."
Indeed...as powerful as web applications have gotten the ability to use them while disconected from the internet has been a big drawback.
It has also been a road block for web apps to compete against windows based applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
As developers begin to integrate Google Gears into their web applications we will see the use of these applications sky rocket.
2 comments:
Google Gears has amazing potential for developing offline web applications. Google continues to position itself to take on Microsoft, especially with their recent acquisition of Postini which may bring their Gmail platform to the enterprise. Look out MS Exchange!!!!
Let the games begin; I'm still betting on Microsoft.
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