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Google grinds Gears

Like a used Jaguar
By Nick Farrell
Wed Dec 02 2009, 12:59

SEARCH ENGINE MONSTER Google has decided that there is no mileage left in its Gears product and has taken it to the great scrapyard in the sky.

Apparently Google has decided to focus its web development plans on HTML5 and Gears is about as useful to its cunning plans as a Berlusconi appointed MEP.

Gears was introduced by Google in 2007 as a browser plug-in to support local browser databases and geo-location functionality.

However most of the its functions have been half-inched into the new HTML5 specification, which will be used by Firefox, Safari and Google's own Chrome web browser.

While Gears might have pioneered the ideas of offline databases and caches it is now starting to look non-standard.

Google has not decided to shut down the plug-in, just its development. This means that sites that make use of Gears will not break. µ

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Thanks Googe for not breaking Gears-powered sites

Ahh, that's too bad. HTML5 sounds very, very interesting though, so they must have a good reason to halt development of Gears.

posted by : Bob, 02 December 2009 Complain about this comment
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