Comments on: @ GDD07: Google Gears – Bringing Server & Client Even Closer

By: Saint-Germain

Saint-Germain — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:24:19 +0000

Erik Do you know what’s common in Sarko and Jules? :))

By: NicolasH

NicolasH — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:01:12 +0000

I have to agree with Peter…enabling offline functionality would have been a blessing a few years ago, but I find it hard to get excited about it now. Maybe I just don’t understand how much I really need it, yet :)

Having said that…AvantGo has to be one of my all-time favourite applications for bridging the gap between online/offline - and that’s 6 or so years old (yes, I know it’s pretty low-tech compared to the scenario in the article).

By: Peter Minne

Peter Minne — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:48:08 +0000

Working offline? Won’t we be connected to the internet all the time in any place in the near future? ;-)

Besides that, most of the applications I built so far are business applications, where data is shared and people work on the same database at the same time. So I can’t really imagine a way of allowing them to work offline. I think the database would show very weird behaviour when trying to synchronize.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:39:51 +0000

Interesting article. The Einstein comment too fits in.
Jules is your real name Szemere Gyula? :)

By: AlexW

AlexW — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:00:48 +0000

I would feel really stink if I was at sitepoint right now.

Guess it’s lucky you’re not here then. It’s all worked out very well.

By: Saumendra Swain

Saumendra Swain — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:16:09 +0000

Extension like Google gear, do show some light on the technical possibilities for doing things offline inspite of the fact that the real process finalised online. Now when product like Yahoo pipes still making hard hunt to have a foothold in the web space , and when bandwidth is not a constrain , I think some more time will needed for all of us to realise, Only online and the central control makes Life web easier.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction. : Einstein

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:54:45 +0000

I would feel really stink if I was at sitepoint right now. You fully claimed it then got bummed out by mrsmiley.

By: Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank — Thu, 31 May 2007 05:40:20 +0000

Ajaxian seems to have had the inside track on this one, beating us by several hours: Audible Ajax Episode 21: Dojo Offline on Google Gears.

Oh well. :)

By: mrsmiley

mrsmiley — Thu, 31 May 2007 02:27:17 +0000

you saw it here first!

http://www.theage.com.au/news/biztech/gears-puts-google-in-the-drivers-seat/2007/05/31/1180205350391.html

Sorry, by my reckoning, The Age beat you by 3 hrs, albeit light on the technical details.