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Google Gears: Enabling Offline Web Applications

June 13th, 2007

One of the most fundamental issues for developing country users is no/limited access to the internet.

“Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Google Gears consists of three modules that address the core challenges in making web applications work offline.

• LocalServer: Cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) locally
• Database: Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
• WorkerPool: Make your web applications more responsive by performing resource-intensive operations asynchronously”

This Beta-status extension works on PC, Mac and Linux. It might be simple, but some of the best applications of technology are low-tech.

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