I totally agree with you, HTML5 will replace Gears, however as the first article in the link provided says:
"... HTML5 isn't complete, though, and isn't fully supported by any existing browser. It's a little like a landlord greeting a prospective tenant by pointing at an empty lot across the street and talking up the skyscraper planned for that space." The best point for Gears (at least in my project) is that is it open source. All that I was looking for was the XPI code, which I found, so life goes on.... On Dec 6, 4:15 am, BLACKJACK <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps those developers with doubts about the veracity of the > announcement that Google is ditching Gears in favour of HTML5 would do > well to read the news articles referenced in this results list: > > http://news.google.co.uk/news/search?um=1&cf=all&ned=uk&hl=en&as_q=GO... > > However much we may lament our investment so far in developing with/ > for Gears, to stubbornly continue pouring more intellectual property > into Gears is on a par with ignoring the "Check Engine Soon" warning > light on a vehicle's instrument panel. We ignore this warning at our > own peril.
