For developers, it means that you can use Google Gear’s APIs to develop web applications with offline functionality: Great work there, Google. Now please release a new version of Gmail, Google Docs and Gcal with offline functionality, soon.

Store and serve application resources locally Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

Any other web applications (Google, or non-Google) would be cool to have this offline functionality? Comment them below! Google Gears – Enabling Offline Web Applications

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