heya, You know, I have to agree.
It all seems a bit like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. I know, it's been said before that Gears is just a hack, and HTML5 is the way to go, but there doesn't seem to have been any concrete announcement or roadmap on when that's happening with any of Google's flagship apps. So it's like the Gears people are saying, "oh, it's fine that we don't support Linux, we'll be using HTML5 soon", and the Apps people are like "oh, we support Gears only, at this point in time". And in the meanttime, Firefox 64-bit Linux still doesn't have proper Gears support (http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=335), and Chromium on Linux doesn't have proper Gears support (http:// code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=17443), and it's quite obvious from both those issues that there's a lot of support for a proper solution for either one. Hence, things like say, drag-and-drop on Wave don't work properly, nor does Gmail offline, or any other apps that use Gears at all, really. Cheers, Victor On Dec 19 2009, 4:36 am, hackel <[email protected]> wrote: > "What gives?" is all I can say... Running Chrome 4.0.249.30, I still > get the message "Offline Mail is not supported by your browser" when > trying to enable the feature in Gmail. This is quite frustrating. > Also the fact that 64-bit Gears for Firefox works just fine and you > continue to drag your feet about releasing it yourself, relying on 3rd- > party hacks to make it work. When will you fix this problem?
