Google Gears
Mardi, juillet 31st, 2007Google Gears is an open source browser extension (like the Firefox extensions) that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Using Google Gears, a web application may periodically synchronize the data in the local cache with the online service. If a network connection is not available, the synchronization is deferred until a network connection is established. Thus Google Gears enables web applications to work even though access to the network service is not present. The synchronization can be realised by either manual or background synchronization where the application continuously synchronizes the data between the local data store and the server. This technic could be used e.g. to simplify the work with an online email service in offline situations. Some sample applications could be found here.