I doubt that Gears is completely obsolete now: IE8 doesn't support web workers, and Blobs/byteArrays/partitioned file uploads still have to make their way into "browser javascript".
But I do see that the enhancement features offered by Gears are getting more and more obsolete with every new browser version. This and other recent developments (namely Chrome OS) might turn Gears into a second-class citizen of Google's product family. On 25 Nov., 04:14, Steve DC <[email protected]> wrote: > It does seem interesting that most major browsers (including IE) > support HTML5 offline storage but not yet Chrome. I guess that's part > of their reasoning for delaying the support of HTML5 instead of gears > for their applications: > > "Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, IE8: HTML5 localStorage; these modern browsers > all support the core localStorage functionality defined in the HTML5 > draft." > > Come on Google. Add HTML5 support to Chrome, then to your apps, and > dump Gears > > On Nov 24, 8:58 pm, Sharon Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I can't get it to work with Chrome either. It keeps telling me my > > Google Mail page doesn't have permission even though it's set > > correctly. > > > On Nov 24, 11:31 am, josefec <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > That’s true. It’s very problematic that Gears is not supported in new > > > versions of Firefox. In case of 3.5 it wasn’t available even when the > > > final version was out. Maybe this is to drag user to Google Chrome. > > > For me it’s one of a few hurdles to update to Firefox 3.6.
